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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...

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...

Lili: A Novel of Tiananmen by Annie Wang [in Christian Science Monitor]

31 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Awful Duds, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost

lili1Let's face it, the media is great at creating and perpetuating stereotypes. Take Asians: inscrutable and mysterious, sly and calculating, from the shuffling house boy to the prostitute with the heart of gold, from Ming the...

Charlie Chan Is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction edited by Jessica Hagedorn [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

01 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost, Short Stories, Young Adult Readers

Charlie Chan Is DeadThis anthology, which includes both short stories and excerpts from larger works, celebrates the diversity of Asian American literature, from the many literary styles to the various ethnic backgrounds, ages...

Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn + Author Profile [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Feb, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Filipina/o, Filipina/o American, Repost, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American, Young Adult Readers

DogeatersDogeaters Run Jessica Hagedorn still sees her bestselling classic, Dogeaters, as a mini-series, “like The Sopranos,” she insists. “It’s the only reason I got HBO!” she says. Never mind that Michael Greif, director of the...

The Hell Screens: A Novel by Alvin Lu [in aOnline]

22 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost, Taiwanese American

Hell ScreensReaders will really appreciate the back blurb on Alvin Lu’s first novel, The Hell Screens. Because it’s probably going to be the most coherent page of the book. Here’s what seems to be the gist...

A Gesture Life by Chang-rae Lee + Author Interview [in aOnline]

15 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Japanese American, Korean American, Repost

Gesture LifeThe Easiest Thing to Do Is Stop Writing Having just returned from Italy where he got a little R&R and did some research on his next novel, Chang-rae Lee didn’t even have time to recover...

When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro [in aOnline]

08 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, British, British Asian, Chinese, Fiction, Repost

When We Were OrphansKazuo Ishiguro’s latest work, When We Were Orphans, is a remarkable novel of love, loss, and potential redemption. In the same understated, quiet style that worked so well in his...

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...

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