Notable
Books from
those countries
Here are books by immigrants from some of the countries recently disparaged by the president.
Americanah (Anchor) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a brilliant novel set in this country and in the author's native Nigeria, won the National Book Critics Circle fiction award in 2013.
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Spiegel & Grau) by Trevor Noah is an often funny, sometimes harrowing, bestselling memoir by the host of The Daily Show.
Claire of the Sea Light (Vintage Contemporaries) by Edwidge Danticat is the award-winning Haitian author's lyrical, heartbreaking novel about family and community in a small village in Haiti.
Colette Bancroft, Times book editor