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I‘m probably not going to finish another nonfiction book this week so here‘s my #NFNov bingo card. This was a fun month of reading. Here‘s what I read:

True Crime: The Less People Know About Us
Children‘s Picture Book: Separate is Never Equal
Free Space: Here We Are
Culture: The Witches Are Coming
Suggested By a Friend: Shout
Audiobook: Invisible Women
Released this year: Acid for the Children

I am so glad I read this. Shahani told her family‘s story in an engaging and emotionally honest way. It was eye-opening to me and I thought I was pretty informed about immigration issues. Most of all her love for her father comes through. I cried at the end. #NFNov

I love NPR & get so many book recommendations by listening. This memoir is by a correspondent about her own family‘s immigration story. It‘s the first book I‘ve started for Nonfiction November. #NFNov

Here We Are is a powerful and heartbreaking, yet honest and hopeful memoir about the Shahani family. I truly feel that if people read this memoir we may have more compassion for immigrants and migrants. It gives a voice to not just the Shahani family, but immigrants and migrants throughout this country. The strength and resiliency of the Shahani family is admirable and inspiring, as well as the love they have for each other and others.

I loved this book so much and it made me very emotional because I am immigrant myself. I came to this country when I was 24 years old. My parents struggled the same way that Aarti parents did. But because of this whole experience we became stronger people. Very well written memoir by #aartinamdevshahani, I could feel the strong connection between Aarti and her father, and other members of the family.#hereweare #fivestarbook #celadonbooks

So well-written, so heartbreaking. Highly recommend this insight into what it means to be an immigrant in America.