'Beginner's Guide to America' and 5 other works that illuminate the US immigrant experience
'Beginner's Guide to America' and 5 other works that illuminate the US immigrant experience Written by Chantal Da Silva, CNN Keeping you in the know, Culture Queue is an ongoing series of recommendations for timely books to read, films to watch and podcasts and music to listen to. Imagine searching for "traces of Americanness" as an immigrant first arriving in the US, and four name tags seen in the airport stop you in your tracks. This was true for author Roya Hakakian, who was 19 when her Persian Jewish family fled Iran in the 1980s. In her new book "Beginner's Guide to America: For the Imm...
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