The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America

From Trump's proposed border wall & travel ban to the marching of White Supremacists in Charlottesville, America is consumed by tensions over immigration & the question of which bodies are welcome. 

In this much-anticipated follow-up to the bestselling UK edition, hailed by Zadie Smith as "lively & vital," editors Nikesh Shukla & Chimene Suleyman hand the microphone to an incredible range of writers whose humanity & right to be here is under attack.

Chigozie Obioma unpacks an Igbo proverb that helped him navigate his journey to America from Nigeria. His debut novel, The Fishermen, won the 2016 NAACP Image Award and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize.

Jenny Zhang analyzes cultural appropriation in 90s fashion, recalling her own pain & confusion as a teenager trying to fit in. She is the author of the poetry collection Dear Jenny, We Are All Find & the story collection Sour Heart.

Fatimah Asghar describes the flood of memory & emotion triggered by an encounter with an Uber driver from Kashmir. She is the creator of the Emmy-nominated web series Brown Girls, now in development for HBO. She is the author of If They Come for Us (One World/Random House, 2018)

Alexander Chee writes of a visit to Korea that changed his relationship to his heritage. He is the bestselling author of the novels Edinburgh & The Queen of the Night, & the essay collection How to Write an Autobiographical Novel.

These writers, & the many others in this singular collection, share powerful personal stories of living between cultures & languages while struggling to figure out who they are & where they belong. By turns heartbreaking & hilarious, troubling & uplifting, the essays in The Good Immigrant come together to create a provocative, conversation-sparking, multivocal portrait of