Publication Date: 04/05/2017 ISBN: 9781783523955 Category:

The Good Immigrant

Nikesh Shukla, Nikesh Shukla

Publisher: Cornerstone
Publication Date: 04/05/2017 ISBN: 9781783523955 Category:
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First published in 2016, The Good Immigrant has since been hailed as a modern classic and credited with reshaping the discussion about race in contemporary Britain. It brings together a stellar cast of the country’s most exciting voices to reflect on why immigrants come to the UK, why they stay and what it means to be ‘other’ in a place that doesn’t seem to want you, doesn’t truly accept you – however many generations you’ve been here – but still needs you for its diversity monitoring forms.
This 5th anniversary edition, featuring a new preface by editor Nikesh Shukla, shows that the pieces collected here are as poignant, challenging, angry, humorous, heartbreaking and important as ever.

Publisher Review

"The Good Immigrant is a lively and vital intervention into the British cultural conversation around race. Instead of statistics and dogma we find real human experience and impassioned argument - and it's funny and moving, too. A must read!" -- Zadie Smith "The stories are sometimes funny, sometimes brutal, always honest ... if I could, I'd push a copy of this through the letter box of every front door in Britain." * Independent * "Highly recommended ... It's precisely those who might at first think this book is not about us, who should read it" * Spectator * "Perceptive, touching and funny" * Observer * "An important, timely read." -- J. K. Rowling

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