Video: Stories by Meera Nair [in AsianWeek]
18 Jul, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Repost, Short Stories, South Asian, South Asian American
Debut collection filled with diverse, disturbing, haunting, entertaining miniatures of Indian and Indian American life.
Review: "New and Notable Fiction," AsianWeek, July 18, 2002
Readers: Adult
Published: 2002...
A remarkable collection of disturbing short stories about lost love, betrayal, unrequited passions, obsession, and ultimate sacrifices. Louis’s characters may not inhabit lengthy pages, but the memory of them will...
A sweeping saga of Tibet before the Chinese occupation, told through the privileged view of the self-proclaimed “renowned idiot son” of a Tibetan chieftain.
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What child wouldn’t worry about moving away from all that is familiar? Make that a move to another country on the other side of the world, and you’ve got the conundrum 8-year-old Jangmi faces...
Delightful, delicious story of a little girl whose parents own an always-open store (except for Christmas) that offers Chinese food, even on the Fourth of July. Certain that no one wants chow...
Lively tale of a poor man’s son who wins the hand of the Khan’s daughter through pure luck, faith, and eventually humility, in spite of demons, enemy armies, a mysterious warrior, and of course,...
A kid-friendly overview of Chinese life in the Americas, including food (of course), health remedies, reading and writing, family values, arts, and religion.
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A humorous, adorable tale set in a Japanese American farming community in the 1920s, about a father and son who go out to Farmer Tanaka’s fields in search of the ghosts that...
A lovely, poignant story about a young boy who grows flowers on the windowsill of the city apartment he shares with his mother, hoping to surprise her when she finally returns from...
Three titles from the We Came to America series from a new publishing house devoted to young adult books – some fabulous stuff, too! For the most part, all three...
Linda Sue Park's Post-Newbery Award Life
Although Linda Sue Park was just 9 when her work was first published – a haiku for a children’s magazine – it would be almost three decades before she attempted her...
The Making of a Hero
Helie Lee's Rescue Mission
When Helie Lee wrote her first book, the bestselling Still Life With Rice: A Young American Woman Discovers the Life and...
Family Devotions
Da Chen’s late father was supportive of every endeavor his son attempted. Except for becoming a writer. “Writers were always the first to be blamed and punished for any...
Hip debut fiction by Canadian Chong, chronicling a week in the life of 18-year-old Saul St. Pierre, the slacker son of a famous folk-singing couple, coming to terms with the suicide of his estranged mother.
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Powerful, timely collection of testimonies from the survivors of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's infamous Executive Order 9066, and reactions from their children.
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Love story gone wrong about an over-idealistic woman who becomes disillusioned with her weak husband's reality and becomes the mistress of a has-been, philandering conductor desperate to get back in the spotlight.
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A Filipino family and friends struggle to survive the brutal Japanese occupation during World War II.
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First-ever memoir available in English about the horrors of surviving and escaping the brutal Communist labor camps of closed, barren North Korea.
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Unbridled capitalism exposed with wit, humor, and even a little self-deprecation.
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Visually stunning look at the first hundred years of San Francisco's Chinatown, from 1850 to 1950.
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