Welcome Resources

Books by Refugees & Immigrants of Color

  • Abdi Nor Iftin, Call Me American

  • Bluegrass Community and Technical College ESL Students, Slowly is the Journey

  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

  • Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads

  • Dekow Diriye Sagar, Life in Exile: The Untold Story of Civil War and Refugee Life

  • Dinaw Mengestu, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

  • Gatluak Ter Thach, My New American Dream: A Personal Story and Perspective of a South Sudanese American Refugee

  • Immaculee Illibagiza, Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust

  • Imbolo Mbue, Behold the Dreamers

  • Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone

  • Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King

  • Nuruddin Farah, Maps

  • Okey Ndibe, Foreign Gods, Inc.

  • Teju Cole, Every Day is for the Thief

  • Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed, When Stars Are Scattered

  • Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

Cookbooks

  • Durkhanai Ayubi, Parwana: Recipes and Stories from an Afghan Kitchen

  • Anas Atassi, Sumac: Recipes and Stories from Syria

  • Yasmin Kahn, Ripe Figs: Recipes and Stories from Turkey, Greece, and Cyprus 

  • Yasmin Kahn,Zaitoun: Recipes from the Palestinian Kitchen

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