Any recommendations for diaspora fiction?

« The Buddha in the Attic » by Julie Otsuka is a wonderful novel about the Japanese in California.

Ooooh, @janbb, thanks! I will research (and probably download) that ASAP!

I realize you’re probably looking for books that someone has read and can recommend, but when I looked up “What is diaspora fiction” I got a couple of reading lists if you’re interested in checking them out. The first one claims to list 8 Essential Diasporic Novels. Sorry I can’t recommend any specific books.

https://bookriot.com/novels-about-diaspora/
https://pen.org/diaspora-migration-reading-list/

@smudges I appreciate very much that you looked it up and then found me some resources. Thank you, I will enjoy perusing those lists! :-)

ETA, After a quick perusal of these lists, I am even more encouraged!

A couple more from me:

Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
Balli Kaur Jaswal

Who’s Irish and Mona in the Promised Land
Gish Jen

My Antonia
Willa Cather – If you’ve never read it, it is marvelous.

Call It Sleep
Henry Roth

Oh, I love me list to check out! I read My Antonia in school…a loooong time ago. Worth a reread, I take it?

@canidmajor It is one of the most beautifully written books in American literature.

Anything by Lisa See especially “Shanghai Girls” and the sequel “Dreams of Joy”

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/A65/shanghai-girls

I love See, I have read everything from Snowflower on, and I have the mysteries in the TBR pile.

Jews Without Money by Michael Gold. An old classic from a socialist author.

How about The Golem and the Jinni, by Helene Wecker?

^^^ I loved that! I never really thought of it as diaspora fiction, but I guess it kind of is.
Have you read The Hidden Palace by Wecker? It’s set in the same world, I have it in my TBR pile.