The House on Mango Street. A young girl, Esperanza Cordero, comes of age in Chicago's Latino section. Breath, Eyes, Memory. A Santeria ceremony exorcises the demons of a Haitian-American girl in New York. Divakaruni, Chitra Bajerjee.
Several stories recount the struggle of people from India to understand life in the United States.
Doctorow, E. L. Ragtime. Major figures in American history permeate this saga of immigrants to New York at the turn of the century. The Exile of Sergeant Nen. 1986. A former general in the South Vietnamese army becomes a waiter in Washington, D.C.'s suburbs. A Servant's Tale. 1984.