Books thatcarried someone home.
Dog-eared Neruda beside fresh-pressed Adichie and hand-stamped zines from a Somali poet who stocks nowhere else. Ink and cardamom in the air. Spines cracked by the owner before they ever reach the shelf.
Bundle Deals
Curated stacks. Small-press runs. Editions that won't restock.
The Homecoming Stack
Three novels about the impossible geometry of return
- โHomegoing โ Yaa Gyasi
- โAmericanah โ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- โThe Namesake โ Jhumpa Lahiri
First Generation Starter Kit
Memoir, poetry, cookbook โ the three languages of belonging
- โCrying in H Mart โ Michelle Zauner
- โCitizen โ Claudia Rankine
- โMy Two Souths โ Asha Gomez
Banned Somewhere Bundle
Five titles censored in their country of origin โ still dangerous
- โPersepolis โ Marjane Satrapi
- โThe Kite Runner โ Khaled Hosseini
- โBeloved โ Toni Morrison
- โThe Satanic Verses โ Salman Rushdie
- โThings Fall Apart โ Chinua Achebe
Flash Deals
One title. One price. Gone when it's gone.
Season of Migration to the North
Tayeb Salih
"The most important Arabic novel of the 20th century โ and still the most dangerous."
The Surrender
Toni Moreno
"I read it on a bus to my mother's city. I cried twice and didn't care who saw."
Behold the Dreamers
Imbolo Mbue
"The American dream as seen from the kitchen โ specific, devastating, true."
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
"Four generations of a Korean family in Japan. I handed it to my grandmother and she finished it in two days."
Binti
Nnedi Okofor
"Afrofuturism that makes you feel the red dust on your skin. A zine-sized masterpiece."
The Unwomanly Face of War
Svetlana Alexievich
"Oral history as literature. The women who fought and were never written about."
Themed Collections
Browse with your fingertips. Stay and discover.
Written in Translation
Something always survives the crossing.
The Vegetarian
Han Kang
Korean โ English
$14
My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante
Italian โ English
$15
The Ministry of Pain
Dubravka Ugreลกiฤ
Croatian โ English
$13
Moshi Moshi
Banana Yoshimoto
Japanese โ English
$12
The Aleph
Jorge Luis Borges
Spanish โ English
$11
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
German โ English
$10
Kitchens & Countries
Every recipe is a letter home.
Jerusalem
Ottolenghi & Tamimi
$38
The Wok
J. Kenji Lรณpez-Alt
$42
Zaitoun
Yasmin Khan
$34
My Two Souths
Asha Gomez
$30
Falastin
Sami Tamimi
$36
Borders & Bodies
Literature written against the wall.
Exit West
Mohsin Hamid
$14
The Unwanted
Khadra Moussa
$16
Borderlands/La Frontera
Gloria Anzaldรบa
$17
Refugee
Alan Gratz
$11
The Beekeeper of Aleppo
Christy Lefteri
$13
American War
Omar El Akkad
$15
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A subscription box packed by someone who carried the first shipment through customs herself. Books typeset in your first alphabet. Editions that don't restock.
"I carried the first box of books through customs in a duffel bag. The officer asked what they were. I said: 'Evidence that we were here.'"
Fatima Al-Rashid
Founder, Diaspora Books ยท Est. 2019 ยท Brooklyn, NY
I described the book to her โ 'the one about the girl who leaves Accra and then can't go back' โ and she pulled it off the shelf in thirty seconds. She'd read it twice. That doesn't happen anywhere else.
Priya Nair
Professor of Postcolonial Literature, Columbia
I found a Somali poetry zine here that my mother's friend had written. She didn't know it existed. I mailed it to her in Minneapolis. She called me crying.
Omar Hassan
Second-generation Somali-American, Boston
Every other bookstore gives me the same five 'diverse reads.' Diaspora gave me a novel typeset in Devanagari that I could finally read to my daughter the way my mother read to me.
Sunita Mehra
Architect and expat, New York
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