Immigrant Short Stories
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If I Survive You
- By: Jonathan Escoffery
- Narrated by: Torian Brackett
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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In the 1970s, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. But America, as the couple and their two children learn, is far from the promised land. Excluded from society as Black immigrants, the family pushes on first through Hurricane Andrew and later the 2008 recession, living in a house so cursed that the pet fish launches itself out of its own tank rather than stay. But even as things fall apart, the family remains motivated, often to its own detriment, by what their younger son, Trelawny, calls “the exquisite, racking compulsion to survive.”
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Good except for the ending
- By Morris Nelms on 11-20-22
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If I Survive You
- Narrated by: Torian Brackett
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 09-06-22
- Language: English
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A major debut, blazing with style and heart, that follows a Jamaican family striving for more in Miami, and introduces a generational storyteller....
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Dearborn
- By: Ghassan Zeineddine
- Narrated by: Sarab Kamoo, Qarie Marshall
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Spanning several decades, Ghassan Zeineddine’s debut collection examines the diverse range and complexities of the Arab-American community in Dearborn, Michigan. In ten tragicomic stories, Zeineddine explores themes of identity, generational conflicts, war trauma, migration, sexuality, queerness, home and belonging, and more.
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Brilliant storytelling
- By jahk on 09-21-24
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Dearborn
- Narrated by: Sarab Kamoo, Qarie Marshall
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 09-05-23
- Language: English
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Spanning several decades, Ghassan Zeineddine’s debut collection examines the diverse range and complexities of the Arab-American community in Dearborn, Michigan....
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How to Love a Jamaican
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- By: Alexia Arthurs
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards, Adenrele Ojo, Dominic Hoffman, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
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Tenderness and cruelty, loyalty and betrayal, ambition and regret - Alexia Arthurs navigates these tensions to extraordinary effect in her debut collection about Jamaican immigrants and their families back home. Sweeping from close-knit island communities to the streets of New York City and midwestern university towns, these 11 stories form a portrait of a nation, a people, and a way of life.
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Wha gwaan?!
- By Nik on 03-28-19
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How to Love a Jamaican
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- Narrated by: Janina Edwards, Adenrele Ojo, Dominic Hoffman, James Fouhey
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 07-24-18
- Language: English
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Tenderness and cruelty, loyalty and betrayal, ambition and regret - Alexia Arthurs navigates these tensions to extraordinary effect in her debut collection about Jamaican immigrants and their families back home....
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The Consequences
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- By: Manuel Muñoz
- Narrated by: Manuel Muñoz
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
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"Her immediate concern was money." So begins the first story in Manuel Muñoz's dazzling new collection. In it, Delfina has moved from Texas to California's Central Valley with her husband and small son, and her isolation and desperation force her to take a risk that ends in profound betrayal.
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Good book
- By Anonymous User on 04-12-24
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The Consequences
- Stories
- Narrated by: Manuel Muñoz
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 03-12-24
- Language: English
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"Her immediate concern was money." So begins the first story in Manuel Muñoz's dazzling new collection. In it, Delfina has moved from Texas to California's Central Valley with her husband and small son, and her isolation and desperation force her to take a risk that ends in profound betrayal.
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Immigrant City
- Stories
- By: David Bezmozgis
- Narrated by: Murray Furrow
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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In these deeply felt, slyly humorous stories, Bezmozgis pleads no special causes but presents immigrant characters with all their contradictions and complexities, their earnest and divided hearts.
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Struggling Immigrants
- By David on 08-31-22
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Immigrant City
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- Narrated by: Murray Furrow
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 07-05-22
- Language: English
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In these deeply felt, slyly humorous stories, Bezmozgis pleads no special causes but presents immigrant characters with all their contradictions and complexities, their earnest and divided hearts....
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Ash Wednesday
- A Point in Time collection
- By: Paula McLain
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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On Ash Wednesday in 1908, Swiss German immigrant Fritz Hirter arrives at his children’s school, where he is the lone custodian. But soon after lessons start, a fast-moving fire breaks out—its cause is unknown, but its effects are horrifying. Although Fritz is soon cleared of any responsibility for the catastrophe, the community continues to suspect him, supremely testing Fritz and his family.
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The agony of the families.
- By J. Mott on 10-18-24
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Ash Wednesday
- A Point in Time collection
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Series: A Point in Time collection
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
- Release date: 07-28-22
- Language: English
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In this wrenching short story based on a real-life tragedy near Cleveland, Ohio, New York Times bestselling author Paula McLain reflects on one family’s perseverance in the face of the unthinkable....
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Moira's Quest
- By: Cynthia Hickey
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
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Revenge isn't always sweet. Can her captive heart be freed to dream, to dare, to love? A quest for revenge ends in a marriage of convenience and a feisty Irish lass discovers that not everything is as it seems as family secrets are revealed. An Irish cop, bent on saving the fallen women of Five Points, New York, finds himself thrust into the role of husband with a woman determined to break down a notorious crime boss. Can these two pull together and find a love bigger than they are?
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Short and Sweet
- By Jennifer Franczak on 08-19-24
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Moira's Quest
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 12-06-23
- Language: English
- Revenge isn't always sweet. Can her captive heart be freed to dream, to dare, to love? A quest for revenge ends in a marriage of convenience and a ...
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The Arranged Marriage
- a short story
- By: Umm Zakiyyah
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Mohsina, daughter of Muslim immigrants to America, is a college student who is very vocal in her arguments against her professor’s anti-Islam rhetoric about Muslim women being forced into unwanted marriages…until her parents try to force her into an unwanted marriage.
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The Arranged Marriage
- a short story
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 13 mins
- Release date: 01-09-24
- Language: English
- Mohsina, daughter of Muslim immigrants to America, is a college student who is very vocal in her arguments against her professor’s anti-Islam ...
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The Islands
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- By: Dionne Irving
- Narrated by: Chanté McCormick
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
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The Islands follows the lives of Jamaican women—immigrants or the descendants of immigrants—who have relocated all over the world to escape the ghosts of colonialism on what they call the Island. Set in the United States, Jamaica, and Europe, these international stories examine the lives of an uncertain and unsettled cast of characters. Set in locations and times ranging from 1950s London to 1960s Panama to modern-day New Jersey, Dionne Irving reveals the intricacies of immigration and assimilation in this debut, establishing a new and unforgettable voice in Caribbean-American literature.
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Just so-so...
- By Jeanette H. on 01-21-24
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The Islands
- Stories
- Narrated by: Chanté McCormick
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 02-28-23
- Language: English
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The Islands follows the lives of Jamaican women—immigrants or the descendants of immigrants—who have relocated all over the world to escape the ghosts of colonialism on what they call the Island....
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Tomb Sweeping
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- By: Alexandra Chang
- Narrated by: Hannah Choi
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Compelling and perceptive, Tomb Sweeping probes the loyalties we hold: to relatives, to strangers, and to ourselves. In stories set across the US and Asia, Alexandra Chang immerses us in the lives of immigrant families, grocery store employees, expecting parents, and guileless lab assistants.
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Such Great Stories
- By Miranda Dunham on 12-16-23
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Tomb Sweeping
- Stories
- Narrated by: Hannah Choi
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 08-08-23
- Language: English
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A playful and deeply affective short story collection about the histories, technologies, and generational divides that shape our relationships—from the award-winning writer of Days of Distraction....
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Roman Stories
- By: Jhumpa Lahiri - translator, Todd Portnowitz - translator
- Narrated by: Ari Fliakos, Carlotta Brentan, Cassandra Campbell, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
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From the internationally bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies comes an exquisitely crafted work of fiction. Jhumpa Lahiri sets her gaze on the eternally beautiful city, illuminating the frailties of the human condition and dissecting lives lived on the margins.
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Suspenseful life stories by real people in every day circumstances .
- By Anna Steele on 01-31-24
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Roman Stories
- Narrated by: Ari Fliakos, Carlotta Brentan, Cassandra Campbell, Deepti Gupta, Michael Obiora
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 10-12-23
- Language: English
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Jhumpa Lahiri, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies, comes to Picador with an astonishing work of fiction, set in and around Rome....
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Deceit and Other Possibilities
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- By: Vanessa Hua
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay, David Shih
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
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From a Hong Kong movie idol fleeing a sex scandal to an obedient daughter turned Stanford pretender, from a Chinatown elder summoned to his village to a Korean American pastor with a secret agenda, the characters in the collection illustrate the conflict between self and society, tradition and change. In "What We Have Is What We Need", winner of the Atlantic's Student Writing Contest, a boy from Mexico reunites with his parents in San Francisco. When he suspects his mother has found love elsewhere, he fights to keep his family together.
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Deceit and Other Possibilities
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- Narrated by: Cindy Kay, David Shih
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 04-07-20
- Language: English
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In her powerful collection, first published in 2016 and now featuring new stories, Vanessa Hua gives voice to immigrant families navigating a new America....
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Boundary Crossings - 5 Contemporary Tales of Pushing Borders
- By: Janine Donoho
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
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What constitutes a border? In the geographical sense, they consist of areas defined by rivers, mountains, and deserts. Physically a boundary prevents people from doing what they choose to do—and sometimes keeps them from harm. When a mental frontier limits you, who powers this abstraction? Why you do...of course.
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Boundary Crossings - 5 Contemporary Tales of Pushing Borders
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
- Release date: 02-13-24
- Language: English
- What constitutes a border? In the geographical sense, they consist of areas defined by rivers, mountains, and deserts. Physically a boundary ...
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A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant's Son
- By: Sergio Troncoso
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
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How does a Mexican American, the son of poor immigrants, leave his border home and move to the heart of gringo America? How does he adapt to the worlds of wealth, elite universities, the rush and power of New York City? How does he make peace with a stern, old-fashioned father who has only known hard field labor his whole life? Troncoso tells his luminous stories through the lens of an exile adrift in the 21st century, his characters suffering from the loss of culture and language, the loss of roots and home as they adapt to the glittering promises of new worlds that seem so empty.
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A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant's Son
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 02-16-21
- Language: English
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How does a Mexican American, the son of poor immigrants, leave his border home and move to the heart of gringo America? Troncoso tells his luminous stories through the lens of an exile adrift in the 21st century....
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Immigrant, Montana
- By: Amitava Kumar
- Narrated by: Amitava Kumar
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
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The author of the widely praised Lunch with a Bigot gives us a remarkable novel - reminiscent of Teju Cole, W. G. Sebald and John Berger - about a young new immigrant to the United States in search of love: across dividing lines between cultures, between sexes, and between the particular desires of one man and the women he comes to love.
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Immigrant, Montana
- Narrated by: Amitava Kumar
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 07-31-18
- Language: English
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The author of the widely praised Lunch with a Bigot gives us a remarkable novel about a young new immigrant to the United States in search of love....
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Ladies of the Night
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- By: Althea Prince
- Narrated by: Jemeni
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
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Ladies of the Night is set in Toronto and Antigua. With women's loves and lives as their focus, the stories contain dramatic twists and turns: some humorous, others shocking and disturbing, all leaving a haunting melody behind. The Toronto stories capture the issues women face as they walk the ground of intimate and family relationships in that city. The Antiguan setting of some of the stories are reflective of Prince's insight into relationships, captured in her novel and essays.
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Ladies of the Night
- Stories
- Narrated by: Jemeni
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 03-02-20
- Language: English
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Ladies of the Night is set in Toronto and Antigua. With women's loves and lives as their focus, the stories contain dramatic twists and turns: some humorous, others shocking and disturbing, all leaving a haunting melody behind....
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If I Survive You
- By: Jonathan Escoffery
- Narrated by: Torian Brackett
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
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1979. Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. But they soon learn that the welcome in America will be far from warm. Trelawny, their youngest son, comes of age in a society which regards him with suspicion and confusion, greeting him with the puzzled question ‘What are you?’ Their eldest son Delano’s longing for a better future for his own children is equalled only by his recklessness in trying to secure it.
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If I Survive You
- Narrated by: Torian Brackett
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 02-02-23
- Language: English
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A major debut, blazing with style and heart, If I Survive You follows a Jamaican family in Miami navigating recession, racism and Hurricane Andrew....
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