Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans by Ronald Takaki [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]
01 Apr, by in Adult Readers, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost, Young Adult Readers
A great book overall because most of it is told in the actual voices of the very Asian Americans who helped create our history. Takaki's follow-up, A Different...
Laying a Golden Egg
Everything – let me say that again – everything about this book is fabulous. So you’re off the hook: you can stop reading this review right now.
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Reading the essays collected in Countervisions: Asian American Film Criticism, edited by Darrell Y. Hamamoto and Sandra Liu, you might think that Rea Tajiri’s History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige is the only Asian American...
The Girl in the Picture
It is undoubtedly the most famous image of the tragedy of War: in its center, a young, naked girl screams in agony and terror, her thin...
International Quest: Paisley Rekdal’s Search for Identity
Born to a Chinese mother and a Norwegian father, Paisley Rekdal has traversed the world, in search of her identity,...
A rare first-person account of an immigrant's journey to America during the period of Chinese Exclusion. The memoir, written with his daughter, covers over a half century of Chin's life from his entry into...
With A Blessing Over Ashes: The Remarkable Odyssey of My Unlikely Brother, Adam Fifield adds a new twist to the currently trendy suffering-child memoir boom (a lá Angela’s Ashes – and really, no disrespect...
Lost and Found: An Interview with Karin Evans
Just days after the death of her beloved father, Karin Evans and her husband, Mark, experienced one of the most joyful events of...
A Legacy of Survival
What began as a casual lunch in San Francisco with a then-business acquaintance ended in a cathartic literary accomplishment for journalist Elizabeth Kim. After exchanging life stories, agent Patti...
The Divine Dr. Deepak Chopra
Named by Time Magazine as one of their 100 heroes and icons of the century, earning him the title of “the poet-prophet of alternative medicine,” Dr....
A Japanese American man recounts his grandfather’s journey from Japan to America, and back to Japan. He comes to understand his grandfather’s feelings of being torn by a sense of being home in two...
"Shorty," a young Japanese American boy, and his family are forcibly relocated to an American concentration camp during World War II. There, in order to help the children survive the barbed wire...
When the world’s first atomic bomb detonated over the Japanese city of Hiroshima, young Mii was sitting at breakfast with her mother and father. Remarkably, the family survived the blast that day,...
A beautiful collection of stories, poetry, remembrances, and art focusing on the tragedies caused by war, and the hopes for a lasting peace for today’s children. A book...
The story of the gifted young Prince Siddhartha who leaves his life of luxury and forsakes everything on this earth to seek the Truth of life over death. His search leads him to the path of...
A biography, based on both historical accounts and legends, of the great Mongol warrior and leader, Chingis Khan (aka Ghenghis Khan), who at the height of his career, controlled the largest empire ever created...
The story of a young Chinese American boy growing up in a small produce town in California is told through wonderful sketches that capture the places, faces, and...
A collection of original stories about growing up as an Asian American child, centered around the diverse ethnic Asian communities of Chicago – featuring Asian Americans of Bangladeshi, Cambodian, Chinese, Filipino, Indian,...
A lone duck flies into downtown Tokyo and hatches 10 ducklings. People flock to Mitsui Office Park to watch the ducks’ progress, including Mr. Sato, a newspaper photographer who names the tiniest of the ducks, Chibi....
Aani, a young Indian woman, bravely leads the other women of her village in putting their arms around the many trees of their forest in order to save...