Foreign Country Web Novels

Foreign country novels follow characters abroad: immigrants, travelers, students, and exiles working out how to live somewhere that does not work the way home did. The distance is the story. Frequent pairings: alienation, identity, historical-period.

The subject is dislocation rather than travel: the protagonist is somewhere the rules are legible to everyone but them. Immigrants, students, exiles, and diplomats all qualify. That makes it a natural companion to identity and alienation, and it pairs with historical-period whenever the border being crossed is also a century.