I'm glad to see literature from a much more varied pool making its way to mainstream publishing. Without varied POVs, none of us will ever understand our world and how to fix it.

This is anthology is very well put together. It represents the experience of migration from the point of view of writers from all over the world. By combining poetry, fiction, memoir (including an excerpt from the graphic novel Persepolis), this collection offers a glimpse of the interior lives of migrants whose experiences are often overlooked. This is a timely collection.

THE PENGUIN BOOK OF MIGRATION LITERATURE by Dohra Ahmad, a professor of English at St. John's University, is split into four sections: Departures, Arrivals, Generations, and Returns, plus a foreword by award-winning author Edwidge Danticat. Honestly, I have been very excited about this book and have several teachers who may consider using it with their classes. The selections here are varied – in terms of genre (poetry, essay, memoir, story); in terms of geography (to/from countries in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia) and in terms of time (ranging from colonial times to the 21st century). As a result, there is plenty of choice for sparking student interest and adding to the curriculum. Many of the authors (e.g., Mohsin Hamid, Julie Otsuka, Salman Rushdie and Marjane Satrapi to name just a few) will be ones students already know and read or ones to whom they should be introduced. Booklist says, "Recommended for teens: The diversity of viewpoints and genres makes for an invaluable introduction to the personal dimensions of global immigration." I am truly looking forward to working with teachers and to developing projects related to these readings which deal with issues like the motivations for migrating, the reality (and sometimes disappointment) of reaching a destination, the different experiences for children and parents, and the multi-directional nature of movement. Thank you to Penguin and to Dohra Ahmad for compiling the much needed collection in THE PENGUIN BOOK OF MIGRATION LITERATURE.

"The Penguin Book of Migration Literature" has a lot of great stories. I'll definitely be recommending this one to patrons.