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Olive Witch by Abeer Y. Hoque [in Christian Science Monitor]

09 Feb, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, African, Bangladeshi, Bangladeshi American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American

'Olive Witch' is the memoir of an outsider on a quest for belonging “bow echo,” the very first words of Abeer Y. Hoque’s raw, unblinking, urgent-in-these-times memoir, Olive Witch, is an easy-to-miss clue. Followed by a temperature (73°F) and what looks like a diary entry, the...

The Bones of Grace [Bengal Trilogy, Book 3] by Tahmima Anam [in Christian Science Monitor]

28 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Bangladeshi, Bangladeshi American, British Asian, Fiction, South Asian, South Asian American

'The Bones of Grace': Anam's ‘Bengal trilogy’ comes to a graceful close First, a warning: The Bones of Grace is the final installment in Bangladeshi-born, London-domiciled Tahmima Anam’s “Bengal trilogy.” If the trilogy’s publication history is any indication – A Golden Age in 2008, The Good...

Twenty-two Cents: Muhammad Yunus and the Village Bank by Paula Yoo, illustrated by Jamel Akib

21 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Bangladeshi, Biography, British Asian, Children/Picture Books, Korean American, Nonfiction

Even as a child, Muhammad Yunus recognized inequity: a story of an 8-year-old Yunus giving his meal to a hungry woman and her daughter opens multi-media author/screenwriter/television producer Paula Yoo’s latest picture book. Into this inspiring biography of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning contemporary hero, Yoo also manages to weave...

The Newlyweds by Nell Freudenberger

05 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Bangladeshi, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific

Here's my 'why-I-read-this-book-scenario': a 21st-century equivalent to the mail-order bride from Bangladesh, her middle-class white American engineer sponsor hubby, the suburban New York life they attempt to share ...

Author Interview: Tahmima Anam [in Bookslut]

01 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Bangladeshi, Bangladeshi American, British Asian, Fiction, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American

In spite of the fierce, wrenching content of her books, Tahmima Anam in real life is a gentle, warm, incredibly youthful presence. We met in livetime a few years ago in Washington, DC, as her debut novel, A Golden Age, was winning major international awards,...

The Good Muslim [Bengal Trilogy, Book 2] by Tahmima Anam

18 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Bangladeshi, Bangladeshi American, British Asian, Fiction, South Asian, South Asian American

Tahmima Anam continues her outstanding Bengal Trilogy, which began with A Golden Age, her glowing 2008 debut that propelled Anam into a privileged literary circle filled with international accolades. From Rehana Haque, the protagonist mother in Age, Anam shifts her focus to the grown Haque...

At Home with Madhur Jaffrey: Simple, Delectable Dishes from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka by Madhur Jaffrey

14 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Bangladeshi, Indian, Indian American, Nonfiction, Pakistani, Sri Lankan

What perfect timing! Madhur Jaffrey's newest cookbook makes for a toothsome companion to one of last week's posts, Indivisible, the first anthology that brings together contemporary American poets...

Revenge by Taslima Nasrin, translated by Honor Moore, with Taslima Nasrin

27 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Bangladeshi, Bangladeshi American, Fiction, Translation

Author/physician/women's rights activist Taslima Nasrin's literary career is perhaps more famous for her detractors' reactions – bannings, book burnings, effigy burnings, fatwas, protests, personal assaults, exile from her home country of Bangladesh – than for the actual words on the page. One always wonders in all...

Yasmin’s Hammer by Ann Malaspina, illustrated by Doug Chayka

29 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Bangladeshi, Children/Picture Books, Fiction

Inspired by two real children in Dhaka whom Ann Malaspina met on her travels through South Asia, Yasmin's Hammer is yet more proof for the need to educate girls throughout the world. When a cyclone destroys their home village "by a lazy river," two sisters – Mita and...

Creating a World without Poverty: How Social Business Can Transform Our Lives by Muhammad Yunus with Karl Weber

18 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Bangladeshi, Nonfiction

If you don't think you've got the time to read this whole book, turn at least to the very end (don't expect to hear me say that again anytime soon!) and read Yunus' inspiring lecture he gave when he and his remarkable Grameen Bank together deservedly won the...

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Olive Witch by Abeer Y. Hoque [in Christian Science Monitor]

The Bones of Grace [Bengal Trilogy, Book 3] by Tahmima Anam [in Christian Science Monitor]

Twenty-two Cents: Muhammad Yunus and the Village Bank by Paula Yoo, illustrated by Jamel Akib

The Newlyweds by Nell Freudenberger

Author Interview: Tahmima Anam [in Bookslut]

The Good Muslim [Bengal Trilogy, Book 2] by Tahmima Anam

At Home with Madhur Jaffrey: Simple, Delectable Dishes from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka by Madhur Jaffrey

Revenge by Taslima Nasrin, translated by Honor Moore, with Taslima Nasrin

Yasmin’s Hammer by Ann Malaspina, illustrated by Doug Chayka

A Golden Age [Bengal Trilogy, Book 1] by Tahmima Anam [in Bloomsbury Review]

Rickshaw Girl by Mitali Perkins, illustrated by Jamie Hogan [in Bloomsbury Review]

Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle against World Poverty by Muhammad Yunus

Brick Lane by Monica Ali [in AsianWeek]

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