In My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education, a candid collection of essays, first-generation American Jennine Capó Crucet explores the condition of finding herself a stranger in the country where she was born. Abdi Nor Iftin’s memoir, Call Me American, chronicles his immigration the United States from battle-torn Mogadishu, Somalia. In This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto, Suketu Mehta makes a timely argument for why the United States and the West would benefit from accepting more immigrants.