Book review: All Our Names

All Our Names

IN RECENT years, American letters has been dominated by writers of hyphenated identity.

Such superstars of the literary firmament as Junot Diaz, Jhumpa Lahiri, Yiyn Li and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie are all elsewhere-born, US-raised, and award-winning, and all focus in spectacular fashion on that most basic and defining American characteristic: namely, the immigrant experience within the ‘land of the free’.