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Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Woman in America by Mary Paik Lee, edited by Sucheng Lee [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

01 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Korean American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Quiet OdysseyThe memoir a one of the earliest Korean American pioneers, who left her native country for America at age 5 in 1905. Through a near century of change, Lee narrates the story of her...

Still Life With Rice: A Young American Woman Discovers the Life and Legacy of Her Korean Grandmother by Helie Lee [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

01 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Korean American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost

Still Life with RiceA young Korean American woman, trying to come to terms with her strong ethnic heritage, travels to Korea for the first time. There she discovers her grandmother’s legacy of survival,...

Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid by Evelyn Lau [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

01 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

RunawayAt 14, Evelyn Lau was an honors student, the dutiful daughter of a strict, traditional Chinese family. Lau’s parents cannot understand her obsession to become a writer; being published in literary magazines and winning awards only...

Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

01 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Japanese American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Farewell to ManzanarJeanne Wakatsuki was just 7 years old when Pearl Harbor was bombed. Within months, her father was taken away by the U.S. government. Soon thereafter, the rest of the Wakatsuki family was...

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Childhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

01 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Woman WarriorA young girl grows up in the San Francisco Bay Area divided amidst the stories and myths of her parents’ faraway past in China and her own experiences as an immigrant’s daughter coming of...

America Is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

01 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Filipina/o American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Southeast Asian American, Young Adult Readers

America Is in the HeartThe autobiography of writer and poet Carlos Bulosan, from his boyhood in the Philippines, to his arrival in America, to the difficulties he faced as a migrant laborer....

Growing Up Asian American edited by Maria Hong [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

01 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Memoir, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost, Short Stories, Young Adult Readers

Growing Up Asian AmericanA diverse collection of essays, excerpts, and short stories about growing up in the U.S., all authored by Americans of Asian descent that address such global issues as parent-child relationships,...

Baba: A Return to China Upon My Father’s Shoulders by Belle Yang + Author Profile [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Chinese American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Taiwanese American, Young Adult Readers

BabaBelle Lettres For Belle Yang, creating Baba: A Return to China Upon My Father’s Shoulders, a lyrical new book filled with impressive pictures and musical prose, was somewhat akin to a rescue...

Author Profile: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston [in Notable Asian Americans]

01 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Japanese American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Farewell to ManzanarOne day in 1971, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's nephew came to visit. He was taking a sociology course at the University of California at Berkeley and wanted to know more about the concentration...

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