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A Beginner's Guide to America
- For the Immigrant and the Curious
Engelsk Paperback
A Beginner's Guide to America
- For the Immigrant and the Curious
Engelsk Paperback

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A stirring, witty, and poignant glimpse into the bewildering American immigrant experience from someone who has lived it. Hakakian''s "love letter to the nation that took her in [is also] a timely reminder of what millions of human beings endure when they uproot their lives to become Americans by choice" (The Boston Globe).

Into the maelstrom of unprecedented contemporary debates about immigrants in the United States, this perfectly timed book gives us a portrait of what the new immigrant experience in America is really like.
 
Written as a "guide" for the newly arrived, and providing "practical information and advice," Roya Hakakian, an immigrant herself, reveals what those who settle here love about the country, what they miss about their homes, the cruelty of some Americans, and the unceasing generosity of others. She captures the texture of life in a new place in all its complexity, laying bare both its beauty and its darkness as she discusses race, sex, love, death, consumerism, and what it is like to be from a country that is in America''s crosshairs.
 
Her tenderly perceptive and surprisingly humorous account invites us to see ourselves as we appear to others, making it possible for us to rediscover our many American gifts through the perspective of the outsider. In shattering myths and embracing painful contradictions that are unique to this place, A Beginner''s Guide to America is Hakakian''s candid love letter to America.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
240
ISBN-13:
9780525565925
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0525565922
Udg. Dato:
25 jan 2022
Længde:
25mm
Bredde:
203mm
Højde:
130mm
Forlag:
Random House USA Inc
Oplagsdato:
25 jan 2022
Forfatter(e):
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