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BookDragon June 2001

Paper Bullets: A Fictional Autobiography by Kip Fulbeck + Author Profile [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Chinese American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Memoir, Repost

Paper BulletsThe Kip Club Kip Fulbeck is not your average performance artist. At age 35, he’s a tenured professor at UC Santa Barbara, does outreach programs for at-risk kids, was a nationally ranked swimmer, and he...

Da Word by Lee A. Tonouchi + Author Interview [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Hawaiian, Repost, Short Stories, Young Adult Readers

Da WordDa Pidgin Guy: Lee Tonouchi reclaims his native language They call him “Da Pidgin Guerrilla.” Bekuz o’ da way he talk. And da fak dat he determined to keep duh langwage of da Locals alive....

Over the Shoulder: A Novel of Intrigue by Leonard Chang [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean American, Repost

Over the ShoulderSilicon Valley thriller with a Korean American hero who could have kicked a little more ass, but adds a few new twists to the meaning of "family secrets." Our hero Allen Choice's...

Yellow: Stories by Don Lee [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean American, Repost, Short Stories

YellowA quirky debut collection populated by the inhabitants of a fictional California seaside town, not unlike Half Moon Bay. Lee's memorable characters are so real, you'll swear you know some of them! Absolutely fabulous. Review: <a href="http://bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/amagazine-2001-0607-new-and-notable.pdf"...

Our Twisted Hero by Yi Munyol, translated by Kevin O’Rourke [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Repost, Translation

Our Twisted HeroA disturbing tale of a 12-year-old city boy's induction into power within a provincial fifth-grade classroom. And you thought kids today grow up too fast! Review: "New and Notable," aMagazine: Inside...

Thinking Orientals: Migration, Contact and Exoticism in Modern America by Henry Yu [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost

Thinking OrientalsA definitive look at how we diverse people of Asian descent (Asians make up some 57% of the world population!) got lumped together as "Oriental" in the U.S. and eventually claimed our status as...

The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American

Death of VishnuThe best of the latest crop of South Asian diaspora titles is The Death of Vishnu, a startling debut novel, the first of a planned trilogy by math professor Manil...

Motherland by Vineeta Vijayaraghavan [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American, Young Adult Readers

MotherlandAnother debut, Motherland tells the coming-of-age story of 15-year-old Maya. Afraid that she has become too Americanized growing up in New York, Maya's parents ship her off for the summer to the remote, mountaintop home of...

The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Myanmarese (Burmese), Repost, South Asian, South Asian American, Southeast Asian

Glass PalaceA startlingly complex novel, The Glass Palace opens with a literal bang, as British cannons thunder over the noise of a busy Burmese marketplace in 1885. A historical work that sweeps over a century...

Amriika by M.G. Vassanji [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Fiction, Indian African, Indian American, Repost, South Asian American

AmriikaThe premise of this disappointing novel revolves around Ramji, who, by the time he arrives in the U.S. in 1968 from his home in Dar es Salaam, East Africa (now Tanzania), he is already doubly displaced....

The Unknown Errors of Our Lives by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Indian American, Repost, Short Stories, South Asian American

Unknown Errors of Our LivesThank goodness for reliable standbys: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's latest is a wonderful short story collection that deals poignantly, patiently, remarkably with the ten­sions between old world...

Bolo! Bolo! A Collection of Writing by Second Generation South Asians Living in North America edited by the Kitchen Table Collective [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Repost, Short Stories, South Asian American, Young Adult Readers

Bolo BoloHere's looking forward to the next generation of writers of South Asian descent: Bolo! Bolo! includes 84 diverse pieces, from poetry to essays to short stories. The title refers to a Hindi colloquial phrase...

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