A Year in Van Nuys by Sandra Tsing Loh [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]
01 Oct, by in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Hapa/Mixed-race, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost
Who needs Peter Mayle when we’ve got the original Chinese German Valley Girl?
Review: "New and Notable," aMagazine: Inside Asian America, October/November 2001
Readers: Adult
Published: 2001...
Fabulous, dark love story of twisted sorts between a Chinese prostitute and a young white boy during the brutal days of late 1800s San Francisco.
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With some 30,000 Chinese children, mostly daughters, being raised throughout the West, books addressing transracial adoption are growing rapidly. Wuhu Diary: On Taking My Adopted Daughter Back to Her Hometown in China, by novelist Emily Prager,...
Founding Father: Curtis Chin
Way, way back when, Curtis Chin – a boy wonder who was featured on Wheel of Fortune as a kid – was my very first editor at 
Currently my children's favorite book, 
A memorable husband/wife collaboration rendered again with astonishing images by 
Multiple Caldecott Medal-winner 
Illustrator Yumi Heo whimsically renders Look's touching new-sibling story about young Jen who helps her grandmother prepare for her little brother's joyous feast day.
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Here's the young adult version of Chen’s lyrical bestseller, Colors of the Mountain.
Reviews: 
Asian American young-adult king Laurence Yep offers two books with recurring characters: In The Amah, Amy learns to shoulder more family responsibility when her widowed mother takes a time-consuming job, while in Angelfish, Amy's friend Robin...
The 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...
Let'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...
Readers 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...
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,...
As I read Karen Shepard’s debut novel, An Empire of Women, I couldn’t help thinking if the title was some sort of sarcastic joke, if not a blatant mistake, because the utter...
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...
Twelve short stories about daily life in modern China, penned by National Book Award winner for Waiting. The collection could be read as a companion title to Waiting, as Ha Jin returns to the same Muji...
Modern Girls
Growing up in a large, extended family in Hong Kong, 
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...
In the title poem of Russell Leong’s 1993 poetry collection, The Country of Dreams and Dust (West End Press), an epic work encompassing the history of the Chinese in America, Leong alludes to what...