Contemporary Diaspora Novels About Work, Family, and Home

An advertising worker wakes from a coma and returns to his family’s sushi restaurant. A woman out of work in New York tells her story in a series of meetings with a job counselor. Siblings return to Beirut when their father wants to sell a house. These novels follow people with ties to more than one country as they make a living, deal with their families, and decide how much of home they can carry with them.