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BookDragon October 2000

The Lucky Gourd Shop by Joanna C. Scott + Author Interview [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

25 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Korean, Korean American, Repost

Lucky Gourd ShopIn Search of Mothers Joanna Catherine Scott, British by birth, Australian by upbringing, and American by chance, is also Asian by association. She is one of a handful – thus far – of...

The Lucky Gourd Shop by Joanna C. Scott [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

25 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Korean American, Repost

Lucky Gourd ShopThe phenomenon of transracial adoption is literally changing the face of – for lack of a better word – ethnic literature. Check out the recent titles: Darin Strauss's Chang and Eng, a...

The Tale of Murasaki by Liza Dalby + Author Interview [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

16 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Japanese, Nonethnic-specific, Repost

Tale of MurasakiCourt Intrigue: An interview with Liza Dalby about her new book, The Tale of Murasaki Six hundred years before the Western world saw its first novel, Lady Murasaki Shikibu’s brilliant tome, The Tale...

An Empire of Women by Karen Shepard [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

11 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Repost

Empire of WomenAs I read Karen Shepard’s debut novel, An Empire of Women, I couldn’t help thinking if the title was some sort of sarcastic joke, if not a blatant mistake, because the utter...

Paper Son: One Man’s Story by Tung Pok Chin with Winifred Chin [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost

Paper SonA rare first-person account of an immigrant's journey to America during the period of Chinese Exclusion. The memoir, written with his daughter, covers over a half century of Chin's life from his entry into...

The Bridegroom: Stories by Ha Jin [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost, Short Stories

BridegroomTwelve short stories about daily life in modern China, penned by National Book Award winner for Waiting. The collection could be read as a companion title to Waiting, as Ha Jin returns to the same Muji...

The Moon Pearl by Ruthanne Lum McCunn + Author Interview [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Hong Kongese, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Moon PearlModern Girls Growing up in a large, extended family in Hong Kong, Ruthanne Lum McCunn was surrounded by strong, independent women. So it's no surprise that she has made a career writing about...

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