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A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times Lesson Plan

Relationship to Other Books

A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times is Hadero's debut collection. The stories appear in Ploughshares, Best American Short Stories, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Addis Ababa Noir, Zyzzyva, and others. Further work has been published in The New York Times Book Review, Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt, and the anthology The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives.

For further collections of short fiction dealing with similar themes, please see: Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke; Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri; Look Who's Morphing by Tom Cho; The Turning by Tim Winton; Heat and Light by Ellen Van Neervan; A Constant Hum by Alice Bishop; Yesterday's...

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