A dazzling novel about a Russian immigrant family living in the Brighton Beach neighborhood of Brooklyn and their struggle to learn the new rules of the American Dream. A searing portrait of hope and ambition and a profound exploration of the power and limits of language itself and its ability to make connections across cultures and generations. —Brian M., Clinton Hill Library

Bangladeshi orphan haunted by her parents' murders moves in with family members in Brooklyn until a fateful coming-of-age summer when her Islamic runaway cousin and she confront painful family secrets. —Brian M., Clinton Hill Library

A sly debut story collection that conjures the experience of adolescence through the eyes of Chinese American girls growing up in New York City. —Brian M., Clinton Hill Library

YA. Ibi Zoboi was born in Port-au-Prince Haiti. She was raised in NYC and this retelling of Pride and Prejudice is all about Brooklyn. Zuri Benitez can’t stand the gentrification in her Bed-Stuy neighborhood. She is proud of her Afro-Latina roots and distrusts the rich family that just moved in across the street. But she can’t deny that although he is stuck up, one of the sons in the new family is very intriguing. —Jessica S., Crown Heights Library

A young girl growing up in Spanish Harlem in the 1940's watches the secure world of her childhood years slowly erode away. —Robert W., Windsor Terrace Library

Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama. —Brian M., Clinton Hill Library

Feeling adrift after ending a relationship, Julius, a young Nigerian doctor living in New York, takes long walks through the city while listening to the stories of fellow immigrants until a shattering truth is revealed. —Robert W., Windsor Terrace Library

When Saya's mother is sent to jail as an illegal immigrant, she sends her daughter a cassette tape with a song and a bedtime story, which inspires Saya to write a story of her own -- one that just might bring her mother home. —Brian M., Clinton Hill Library