Becoming Americans is a collection of eighty-five accounts of immigration to the United States. Although its title might suggest something triumphalistic, the book’s contributors are alert not only to the possibilities and satisfactions of immigrant life, but also to its ironies and tragedies. The anthology includes the stories of an English playboy novelist (Christopher Ishe (...)
June 03, 2011
Books
On the Road
Becoming AmericansFour Centuries of Immigrant WritingEdited by Ilan StavansLibrary of America, $40, 850 pp.
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