A Beginner's Guide to America

A stirring, witty, and poignant glimpse into the bewildering American immigrant experience from someone who has lived it. Hakakian''s "love letter to the nation that took her in [is also] a timely ...

A stirring, witty, and poignant glimpse into the bewildering American immigrant experience from someone who has lived it. Hakakian''s "love letter to the nation that took her in [is also] a timely reminder of what millions of human beings endure when they uproot their lives to become Americans by choice" (The Boston Globe).Into the maelstrom of unprecedented contemporary debates about immigrants in the United States, this perfectly timed book gives us a portrait of what the new immigrant experience in America is really like. Written as a "guide" for the newly arrived, and p