Books on a Theme - June is the Refugee/Immigrant Experience

This is a potluck where we bring a dish from a country of origin we read about. Location is Abbey's house. Address
will be provided to RSVPs who weren't at our last potluck within a day or two before the event. General location is southeast of Tucson. (Your RSVP MUST be confirmed, no shows will be removed from the group).

Book Club where we will read from a choice of books that cover a different theme each month. June 20 is World Refugee Day. "Each year on 20 June, the world celebrates World Refugee Day, the international day to honour people who have been forced to flee." https://www.unhcr.org/get-involved/take-action/world-refugee-day

Pick one of these books to read and discuss! If you're motivated to read more than one, go for it! If you want to read or discuss a different book not listed here on the theme, feel free to share that book with the group. If you don't have time to read any of the books, but want to listen and/or partake in the discussion anyway, feel free! The books below reflect varied refugee and immigrant experiences:

**Call Me American: A Memoir by Abdi Nor Iftin (This memoir is amazing)

• Everything Sad is Untrue *by Daniel Nayeri
  **Asylum by Edafe Okporo
• The Refugees or A Man of Two Faces *by Viet Thanh Nguyen
  **Solito by Javier Zamora
• Don't Look Back: a Memoir of War, Survival, and My Journey From Sudan to America *by Achut Deng
  What is the What by Dave Eggers
• Slow Noodles: a Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes *by Chantha Nguon
  My Side of the River by Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez - the author was born in Tucson - a lot of her memoir takes place here.
• A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier *by Ishmael Beah
  **On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
• Butterfly: From Refugee to Olympian, My Story of Rescue, Hope, and Triumph *by Yusra Mardini
  We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories From Refugee Girls Around the World by Malala Yousafzai
• Girl at War *by Sara Novic
  The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You by Dina Nayeri
• The Girl Who Smiled Beads *by Clementin Wamariya
  **The Bird Tattoo by Dunya Mikhail
• What Strange Paradise *by Omar El Akkad