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by Nikesh Shukla – editor

  • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
  • Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
  • Release date: 10-29-19
  • Language: English

An urgent collection of essays by first- and second-generation immigrants, exploring what it’s like to be othered in an increasingly divided America.

From Trump’s proposed border wall and travel ban to the marching of white supremacists in Charlottesville, America is consumed by tensions over immigration and the question of which bodies are welcome. In this much-anticipated follow-up to the best-selling UK edition, hailed by Zadie Smith as “lively and vital”, editors Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman hand the microphone to an incredible range of writers whose humanity and right to be here is under attack. 

  • Chigozie Obioma unpacks an Igbo proverb that helped him navigate his journey to America from Nigeria. 
  • Jenny Zhang analyzes cultural appropriation in ’90s fashion, recalling her own pain and confusion as a teenager trying to fit in. 
  • Fatimah Asghar describes the flood of memory and emotion triggered by an encounter with an Uber driver from Kashmir. 
  • Alexander Chee writes of a visit to Korea that changed his relationship to his heritage. 

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

This audiobook is read by: Sebastián Villar Rojas, Teju Cole, Porochista Khakpour, Nicole Dennis-Benn, Rahawa Haile, Priya Minhas, Walé Oyéjidé, Fatimah Asghar, Tejal Rao, Jim St. Germain, Fatima Mirza, Alexander Chee, Yann Mounir Demange, Mona Chalabi, Jade Chang, Susanne Ramírez de Arellano, Basim Usmani, Jean Hannah Edelstein, Daniel José Older, Jenny Zhang, Chigozie Obioma, Maeve Higgins, Krutika Mallikarjuna, Dani Fernandez, Chimene Suleyman, and Emily Woo Zeller 

Additional information

Author

Chimene Suleyman – editor, Nikesh Shukla – editor

Language

English

Length

10 hrs and 31 mins

Narrated by

Emily Woo Zeller, full cast

Release date

10-29-19

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