Immigrants

With sensitivity and wit, Friedman creates a tableau of characters, scenery, sounds, smells, and tastes as varied as those who have claimed or seek to claim a home within our borders.

In this compelling collection of stories, we find immigrants everywhere: in the poignant and doomed relationships between the documented and undocumented: in a squalid encampment by the Rio Grande, where a young mother sends her daughter over the bridge to the U.S. alone; in the multicultural heart of New York,...