A review by balletbookworm
The Penguin Book of Migration Literature: Departures, Arrivals, Generations, Returns by Dohra Ahmad, Edwidge Danticat

4.0

A wonderfully solid and wide-ranging anthology of fiction, poetry, memoir, and personal essay on the subject of migration, whether voluntary or involuntary. The pieces are diverse geographically and chronologically (the earliest works are from eighteenth-century writers and enslaved persons Olaudah Equiano and Phyllis Wheatley and the more recent are migrations from the Middle East and mid-2000s green card worries). My only complaint is that for excerpts of longer pieces (like from Zadie Smith’s White Teeth) there isn’t much context to orient the reader. The Additional Reading/Watching section at the back is excellent.