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The Chosen Shore: Stories of Immigrants

The Chosen Shore: Stories of Immigrants

Conley, Ellen Alexander

Paperback

General United States HistoryGeneral World HistoryImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 0520239881
ISBN13: 9780520239883
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Sep 13 2004
Pages: 283
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.73 Width: 5.94 Depth: 8.98
Language: English
A Korean street child is adopted into an upper-middle-class suburban home. A Vietnamese monk dishes up fast food to fund a spiritual center. A woman saves for a home back in Ghana, where she will never live. All are immigrants to the United States, known to most of their fellow Americans only as statistics. The stories that statistics can't tell unfold in this book, in which twenty-three recent immigrants recall navigating the paradoxes, pitfalls, and triumphs of becoming Americans. Candid, evocative, and richly detailed, their oral histories comprise a compelling portrait of the changing face of the American population.

In venues from the San Francisco Chronicle to the New York Times, Ellen Alexander Conley's fiction has been hailed as wonderful, impassioned, and memorable. Conley brings the same passion and skill to her depiction of our nation's most recent arrivals. These personal histories, along with Conley's thoughtful overview of literature on immigration, give us a firsthand sense of what it means to become an American.

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