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Author: Michael Adam Carroll

Critical Essays

This Land is My Land, Not Yours
ByMichael Adam Carroll February 24, 2019January 30, 2026

Hernán Díaz returns to the California Gold Rush in his 2017 novel, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He shows an America in transition, fixated on the promise of prosperity, power, and property.

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Living in Multiple Worlds: Immigration in Lucky Boy and The House of Broken Angels
ByMichael Adam Carroll April 22, 2018January 30, 2026

When you immigrate, you bring an entire world along with you, a fifth limb impossible to detach, though internal and external forces demand its removal. Immigrants enter into a state of constant negotiation, deliberating what stays and what goes within their sociopolitical space.

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