Books like Somewhere, home by Nada A. Jarrar

The Kite Runner follows an unlikely friendship between a privileged boy and the son of his father’s servant amid Afghanistan’s turbulent history, exploring betrayal, redemption, and the father‑son bond.

A personal, illustrated memoir of Marjane Satrapi’s childhood in Tehran, her coming‑of‑age during the Islamic Revolution, teenage years in Vienna and eventual exile from Iran.

James McBride’s memoir chronicles his upbringing among twelve siblings in Brooklyn’s Red Hook, revealing his mother’s hidden Jewish heritage and their shared journey of race, identity, and faith.

Mary Nazneen travels from a restrictive life in Bangladesh to London, where she navigates an arranged marriage, cultural clashes, and her own desires for independence.

A young South‑Asian Londoner named Karim dreams of leaving suburbia, only to find his life—and his world—transformed when his visionary father, dubbed the "Buddha of Suburbia," entangles him in a mystic quest for identity.

In the years leading to the Opium Wars, the slave ship Ibis carries a diverse crew of sailors, stowaways, convicts, and passengers—including a bankrupt raja, a widowed village woman, a mulatto American, and an evangelical opium trader—who bond as ship-brothers on a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean.

A sweeping family saga that charts the Abulheja lineage from exile in 1948 to the present, exploring the Palestinian experience through four generations amid the Israeli‑Palestinian conflict.

"Aaliya Sohbi lives alone in her Beirut apartment, surrounded by stockpiles of books. Godless, fatherless, childless, and divorced, Aaliya is her family's 'unnecessary appendage.' Every year, she translates a new favorite book into Arabic, then stows it away. The thirty-seven books that Aaliya has translated over her lifetime have never been read-- by anyone. After overhearing her neighbors, 'the three witches,' discussing her too-white hair, Aaliya accidentally dyes her hair too blue. In this breathtaking portrait of a reclusive woman's late-life crisis, readers follow Aaliya's digressive mind as it ricochets across visions of past and present Beirut. Colorful musings on literature, philosophy, and art are invaded by memories of the Lebanese Civil War and Aaliya's own volatile past. As she tries to overcome her aging body and spontaneous emotional upwellings, Aaliya is faced with an unthinkable disaster that threatens to shatter the little life she has left" --

Nidali, the rebellious daughter of an Egyptian-Greek mother and a Palestinian father, narrates her story from her childhood in Kuwait, her early teenage years in Egypt (to where she and her family fled the 1990 Iraqi invasion), to her family's last flight to Texas.

A young girl's first sights and experiences in the United States are sometimes familiar "just like home."