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Moonlight Memoirs: Remembering that Family and Friends are Forever by Maggie Mei Lewis, illustrated by Melody Lea Lamb

26 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, Chinese American, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific

Two young mice, out "on a cold, lonely night," meet a mysterious older mouse who leads them to a magical place where "departed loves ones" appear to remind the two adventurers that they will never be alone. "They're not truly gone, but watch over you...

My Papa Diego and Me: Memories of My Father and His Art by Guadalupe Rivera Marín and Diego Rivera

25 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Bilingual, Children/Picture Books, Latina/o/x, Memoir, Nonfiction

Guadalupe Rivera Marín grew up inspiring her legendary artist father, the Mexican muralist and sculptor Diego Rivera. Marin chooses some of her favorite works by her father – including a few for which she sat as his model – and shares both memories and lessons of...

Woman from Shanghai: Tales of Survival from a Chinese Labor Camp by Xianhui Yang, translated by Wen Huang [in Library Journal]

21 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese, Nonfiction, Repost, Short Stories, Translation

Since the 1980s, Chinese writers determined to bear witness to the atrocities of Mao’s Communist regime have bypassed censorship by writing “documentary literature,” blurring the lines between fiction and nonfiction. Drawing on 100-plus interviews, Xianhui Yang’s 13 thinly disguised stories chronicle the brutality of the Jiabiangou...

The Color of Heaven by Kim Dong Hwa, translated by Lauren Na

19 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Korean, Translation

The final installment in the three-volume manwha that began with The Color of Earth and The Color of Water, follows Ewha, now a lovely young woman, and her still-young mother, as both wait for their respective missing lovers. Ewha's Duksam flees the wrath of his...

Once on a Moonless Night by Dai Sijie [in San Francisco Chronicle]

17 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Chinese, Fiction, Repost, Translation

If you see a book cover with the name Dai Sijie on it, read the book. Dai's delightful 2001 debut, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, about two young boys who discover a love for literature while sequestered in a re-education camp during Mao's Cultural Revolution,...

The Sound of Water by Sanjay Bahadur

17 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Indian, South American

Based on actual tragic event in a remote Indian coalmine in 2001, Badahur – an ex-director in the Indian Ministry of Coal until 2006 – makes his literary debut with a scathing insider's look at the tainted coal industry. Badahur recounts the multifaceted layers of the...

North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley

14 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Chinese American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Young Adult Readers

I have to confess that had my teenaged daughter not handed me the book and said, "it's great, I loved it," I probably wouldn't have finished this latest title from Justina Chen Headley whose debut, Nothing But the Truth (and a few white lies), remains...

Tokyo Fiancée by Amélie Nothomb, translated by Alison Anderson

12 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, European, Fiction, Japanese, Translation

Referred to on the front flap as "highly autobiographical," this slim story proves to be an addictive quick read. The protagonist Amélie (who is not so unlike the author Amélie) returns to Japan where she was born to Belgian parents and spent part of her...

Delhi Noir edited by Hirsh Sawhney [in San Francisco Chronicle]

11 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Indian, Repost, Short Stories, South Asian

Whenever my kids start singing "Crazy Kiya Re," still one of their favorite songs after multiple trips to India, I find myself having to leave the room. Since reading the 14-story anthology Delhi Noir, I can't disassociate the Bollywood hit from the police officer who...

School of Fear by Gitty Daneshvari

10 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Fiction, Iranian American, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers

Logizomechanophobia: the fear of computers. That would be me! Of course, none of the four 12-year-old protagonists in this chuckling read suffer from such fears (young 'uns these days are all so wired!), but they do each have their own quirky phobias. As every chapter...

First Come the Zebra by Lynne Barasch

05 Aug, by SIBookDragon in African, Children/Picture Books, Fiction

Out on the Kenyan grasslands, millions of animals will take turns grazing on the lush greenery after the rainy season during their great migration from neighboring Tanzania. First the zebra will eat only the very top of the grass, followed by the wildebeest who will...

Balarama: A Royal Elephant by Ted and Betsy Lewin

04 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, Indian, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, South Asian

Husband-and-wife author/illustrators, Ted Lewin and Betsy Lewin, who also happen to both be individual Caldecott Honor winners, travel the world in search of adventure. Their latest book together combines the experiences of two trips to Mysore, India in 1997 and 1998 during which they came up close...

The Vietnam War: A Graphic History by Dwight Jon Zimmerman and Wayne Vansant, foreword by General Chuck Horner (Ret.)

03 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Nonfiction, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American, Vietnamese, Vietnamese American, Young Adult Readers

The Vietnam War undoubtedly remains one of the most confusing, hotly-debated events of world history. Decades later, the war's legacy cannot be accurately measured, much less fully understood. Just in time for back-to-school, the first-ever graphic version – 140 pages of black-and-white-drawings – of the complicated war...

The East-West House: Noguchi’s Childhood in Japan by Christy Hale

31 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Biography, Children/Picture Books, Hapa/Mixed-race, Japanese American, Nonfiction

Born in Los Angeles to a Scotch-Irish American mother, Leonie Gilmour, and a missing Japanese father, the young boy who would grow up to be Isamu Noguchi moved as toddler to Japan to join his estranged father. When Gilmour realized that the older Noguchi already had...

Beautiful as Yesterday by Fan Wu

25 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction

Told in the three alternating voices of a Chinese mother and her two Chinese American daughters, Fan Wu's second novel weaves a family tapestry filled with the multiple layers of intermixed cultures and generations. Mary, once Guo-Mei, now lives comfortably in Silicon Valley with her American-born...

my little red book by Rachel Kauder Nalebuff

24 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

Every mother and daughter needs to share this book. Actually, every woman should have a copy of it. Given the incredible success of Eve Ensler's revolutionary play, The Vagina Monologues, "the menstruation monologues" are the natural next step! Of course, this funny, touching, memorable collection could...

Shanghai Girls by Lisa See

23 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction

Since Lisa See's latest has been sitting high on all the best bestseller lists for many weeks, presumably many have already read the  story of two sisters and their odyssey from China to LA's Chinatown. I probably should have done the same – read the...

Children of the Sea (vol. 1) by Daisuke Igarashi, translated by JN Productions

22 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Middle Grade Readers, Translation, Young Adult Readers

Ruka, a star handball player, gets a little too rough and ends up kicked off the team. Frustrated, she heads to big city Tokyo where she thinks she might find the sea, and instead meets a mysterious young boy named Umi (whose name happens to...

Amulet | Book One: The Stonekeeper and Book Two: The Stonekeeper’s Curse by Kazu Kibuishi

15 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese American, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific

Two years after her father is killed in a car accident, Emily moves with her mother and younger brother Navin to a faraway family home, once owned by her great-grandfather who disappeared decades ago. On the top floor of the neglected house, she finds a...

San Francisco Noir edited by Peter Maravelis

14 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Short Stories

And since I was reviewing that latest Delhi Noir (see below post for Brooklyn Noir) for a San Francisco paper, I figured I ought to check out the local entry to the series, too. I'm all about procrastinating! So the Fog City version, compared to the...

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