Introduction : the new immigrant writing
Slavs of New York : Being there, Mr. Sammler's planet
Immigration and primal scene : Alvarez's How the García girls lost their accents
Survival on the tangled bank : Hegi's The vision of Emma Blau and Mukherjee's Jasmine
Language, dreams, and art in Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban
Korean connection : Chang-rae Lee and company
Haitian Persephone : Danticat's Breath, eyes, memory
Assimilation and adolescence : Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy and Lan Cao's Monkey bridge
Ethnicity as pentimento : Mylène Dressler's The deadwood beetle
Immigration as Bardo : Wendy Law-Yone's The coffin tree
Closet and mask : Junot Díaz's Drown
Conclusion : we, them, us.