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“Immigration is an opaque glass box whose front door opens outwards.”

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Book:Thirty-Eight Days of Rain: Winner of the 2024 Ink Book Prize for Fiction

Source: Thirty-Eight Days of Rain: Winner of the 2024 Ink Book Prize for Fiction

“She knew how to swing her legs on that hyphen that defined and denied who she was: Iranian-American. Neither the first word nor the second really belonged to her. Her place was on the hyphen and on the hyphen she would stay, carrying memories of the one place from which she had come and the other place in which she must succeed. The hyphen was hers-- a space small, and potentially precarious. On the hyphen she would sit, and on the hyphen she would stand, and soon, like a seasoned acrobat, she would balance there perfectly, never falling, never choosing either side over the other, content with walking that thin line.”

Immigration Literature

Book:Together Tea

Source: Together Tea

“All those who leave immigrate to better lives, but I wanted to better my death. Maybe it is the ending that matter, not the life, I thought. Maybe we, like elephants, walk towards our chosen burials.”

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Author:Rawi Hage

“To be a refugee is to be split in two. One half buried in memories. The other is begging the world to let it bloom.”

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Book:Dreamer In Chains: Poems of Exile and Resilience

Source: Dreamer In Chains: Poems of Exile and Resilience