Jhumpa Lahiri and Edwidge Danticat
One of the problems with downloading books to my I-Pad from the DC Public Library is that the 'holds' on the better books are often quite long, and you are discouraged when you see that there are seventy readers ahead of you. Of course, the Library is presumably licensed to provide more than one copy, so the numbers do come down reasonably quickly.
But often when it is clear there is no book in the offing, I am forced to cast around a bit, and there is a form of "recommended for you" section that seems to recognize vaguely that I am into reasonably serious books, and these are often available immediately.
Two such books recently were Jumpha Lahiri's "Unaccustomed Earth" and Edwidge Danticat's "The Dew Breaker." Coincidentally both are collections of short stories (some closer to novella length) dealing with immigrant experience in the United States--Danticat with Haitian immigrants and Lahiri with Indian, specifically Bengali, immigrants. Danticat's immigrants are way down in the social scale, and there are often back stories set in Haiti that illuminate their present situations in the United States. Jahiri's immigrants are eminently successful fathers (doctors, professors...) with wives--often from arranged marriages--who are deeply rooted in Bengali culture and children who want to grow up as American teenagers.
So if you search the deluge of new, 'must read' books and find nothing available, I am sure that both these books sit on the shelves in your local library and both are well worth reading. I am, however, a little critical of some of the Lahiri stories that seem to me to stretch out further than the subject matter required--but you can always skip...