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We’re exploring fiction that depicts the immigrant and refugee experience, and we’ll end with what we’re reading this week.

Books and other media mentioned in this episode:

Ann’s picks:

• How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez (buy from Bookshop)
• Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys (buy from Bookshop)
  – Titanic (film)
  – Ruta Sepetys books
• The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo (buy from Bookshop)
  – The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (buy from Bookshop)
  – Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (buy from Bookshop)

Halle’s picks:

• Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (buy from Bookshop)
  – Exit West (film)
• The Other Americans by Laila Lalami (buy from Bookshop)
  – Liz Moore books
  – Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (buy from Bookshop)
• The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez (buy from Bookshop)
  – Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (buy from Bookshop)

What We’re Reading This Week:

• Ann: The Art of Escapism Cooking: A Survival Story, with Intensely Good Flavors by Mandy Lee (buy from Bookshop)
  – Mandy Lee’s Flattening the Bird
  – Lady and Pups (blog)
  – @ladyandpups
• Halle: The Verifiers by Jane Pek (buy from Bookshop)
  – Book of the Month

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