A review by fairee
The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America by

4.0

A poignant and heartfelt collection of essays that I was able to relate to as a child of an immigrant, and also learn a lot from as the essays were vast and different. Common threads were family, childhood, and being an outsider, and it was beautiful to witness the huge differences but also similarities in every story. Not all essays were equally captivating, but overall I highly recommend this book to anyone either wanting to learn more about the diverse immigrant experience, or affirm the many things we all feel as immigrants/ people with immigrant families. My favorite essays were “how to write Iranian-American” “swimmer” “how not to be” “on loneliness” “chooey-booey and brown” “shithole nation” “dispatches from the language wars” and “skittles”