Selection 1: UNACCUSTOMED EARTH by Jhumpa Lahiri - Lahiri returns to the short story form where she expertly plumbs the Bengali-American experience of immigrants who are torn between bleak alternatives. Upon publication, this book debuted at the top of The New York Times best-seller list.
Selection 2: THINGS ARE GOOD NOW by Djamila Ibrahim - In this collection of nine short stories, Ibrahim “writes with intensity and empathy, creating characters who are torn between bleak alternatives as they come to realize that asylum is not the same as resolution.