7 Books Like Feijoa

This is the best type of self-help memoir - laugh out loud funny, sad at times and truly enlightening. I listened to the audiobook then immediately went out and bought the print edition so I could underline all the a-ha's. It is like reading a Brene Brown book if Brene was a British comedian that talked about puppies, Cher and farting. Pick it up and flip through the book and something is guaranteed to help lift your spirits. From acting like Beyonce at a zebra crossing to addressing what self-care really is (not bubble baths!) and why we all like birdsong, there are so many takeaways. There is even a section that mentions taking away takeaways! This book is a Miranda meander (I like what I did there) through 'treasures' that can help us all. It wasn't perfect. I don't like the title and although the narration is great, some… show more.

This book is a fun, page-turning murder-mystery. What else could you want in a book? It checks all the boxes you would come to expect from this author. Interesting characters, twisty storyline and some laugh out loud moments. The audiobook was narrated superbly. It is not without its faults - some of the twists and turns didn't make sense and it was a bit too far-fetched, but I am hooked. Looking forward to reading this series for years to come. Maybe there will even be a cross-over with this author's other series at some point? I wouldn't want to place bets on who would win in an Elizabeth-Rosie brawl. If you liked this author's previous series you will enjoy this too but I don't really need to tell you that.

Much of “the line,” as Border Patrol agents and migrants sometimes call the border, is far from big cities and curious journalists. And a lot of what happens there, happens under cover of darkness or behind the secured doors of Border Patrol stations.

As a former Border Patrol agent, Cantú saw what happened when no one else was looking. His memoir shares it with the rest of us.

At times, immigration policies are so ludicrous that only fiction can tell a credible story of what’s happening.

In Luiselli’s novel, modern asylum policies in the United States get the storytelling they deserve through the lens of one New York family struggling with the ordinary challenges of life only to learn, bit by bit, just how close their lives are to the migrants attempting to navigate the extraordinary demands of immigration policies along the US-Mexican border.

On the ground in courtrooms and jail cells when the Trump administration began separating migrant families, Efrén Olivares’s memoir is more than just the story of a lawyer fighting for his clients.

Olivares is also a migrant who knows what it’s like to have his family split apart by immigration laws. Read it for the play-by-play account of family separation in 2018 but enjoy it because in Olivares the future of migration breathes, walks, and fights back.

Cornejo Villavicencio renders the lives of the undocumented across America with razor-sharp clarity, intertwining her own story throughout.

She shows us how the undocumented struggle to find work, healthcare, and safety while also maintaining their families, integrity, and sanity. She becomes a medium for immigrant stories that might otherwise remain illegible except as fodder for ideological battles.

Cornejo Villavicencio was one of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard and was a PhD candidate at Yale at the time of her book’s publication; this marks her as an exceptional kind of speaker, and the book’s marketing and reviews rarely failed to mention these facts.

And yet Cornejo Villavicencio vehemently rejects the American-dream mythology that would make her life exemplary. Even so, that mythology orbits around her book, showing how difficult it is to disentangle false themes of transcendence from migrant literature.

But Cornejo Villavicencio cuts through the sentimental or… show more.

In Calais, France, on Europe’s northern edge, migrants from across the Middle East and Africa settled, hopeful that they would eventually make it across the English Channel.

While they waited, they built lives, relationships, and the ramshackle edifices that poverty permits—the ingredients of communities. Only to be attacked, sometimes by neighbors, other times by police. In this graphic novel, Evans brings Europe’s refugees to life in their humor, hope, and despair.