Books like If They Come for Us by Fatimah Ashgar

A Little Life follows four college friends in New York as they confront trauma, love and the enduring scars of their pasts, weaving themes of friendship, family, and identity into a profound coming‑of‑age story.

After being murdered at fourteen, Susie Salmon watches from heaven as her family, friends, and killer grapple with grief and justice, revealing how love and forgiveness shape a family's future.

Americanah follows Ifemelu, a Nigerian student who moves to the United States for university, exploring her life and love across continents while reflecting on identity, immigration, and cultural belonging.

A graphic memoir that follows a young Vietnamese immigrant’s journey from war‑torn Saigon to a new life in the United States, told through vivid illustrations and personal reflections.

In southeastern Nigeria, the enigmatic death of a young man sets a family on a desperate quest to grasp his mystery, confronting love, identity, and the fragile bonds that hold them together.

A half‑Persian teenager struggling with depression finds belonging in Iran when a new friend shows him what it means to be truly understood.

Kahf establishes herself as a new voice in the tradition of ethnic American poets, blending the experiences of recent Arab-American immigrants into contemporary American scenery. In her poems, Muslim ritual and Qur'anic vocabulary move in next door to the idiom of suburban Americana, and the legendary Scheherazad of the *Thousand and One Nights* shows up in New Jersey, recast as a sophisticated postcolonial feminist. Kahf’s carefully crafted poems do not speak only to important issues of ethnicity, gender, and religious diversity in America, but also to universal human themes of family and kinship, friendship, and the search for a place to pray. She chronicles the specific griefs and pleasures of the immigrant and writes an amulet for womanly power in the face of the world’s terrors. Her poetic energy is provocative and sassy, punctuated now and then with a darker poem of elegiac sadness or refined rage.

A collection of Leonard Cohen's poetry and song lyrics covering his entire career.

"Throughout my childhood, my grandmother Yasmina, who was illiterate and grew up in a harem, repeated that to travel is the best way to learn and to empower yourself. "When a woman decides to use her wings, she takes big risks," she would tell me, but she was convinced that if you didn't use them, it hurt ...". "So recalls Fatema Mernissi at the outset of her new book. Of all the lessons she learned from her grandmother - whose home was, after all, a type of prison - the most central was that the opportunity to cross boundaries was a sacred privilege. Indeed, in journeys both physical and mental, Mernissi has spent virtually all of her life traveling - determined to "use her wings" and to renounce her gender's alleged legacy of powerlessness.". "For her book's inspired central metaphor, Mernissi turns to the ancient Islamic tradition of oral storytelling, illuminating her grandmother's feminized, subversive, and highly erotic take on Scheherazade's wife-preserving tales from The Arabian Nights - and then ingeniously applying them to her own lyrically embellished personal narrative. Interwoven with vivid ruminations on her childhood, her education, and her various international travels are the author's piquant musings on a range of deeply embedded societal conditions that add up, Mernissi argues, to a veritable "Western harem.""--BOOK JACKET.

Duy Doan's debut poetry collection explores humor, reserve, and the fluidity of identity through the eyes of a Vietnamese‑American, winning the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ poetry.

Bao Phi’s “Thousand Star Hotel” is a collection of poems that powerfully confronts racism, police brutality, and the obscured lives of Asian American urban poor.