The Good Man: A Novel by Edward Jae-Suk Lee [in AsianWeek]
25 Feb, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean American, Repost
Undoubtedly, this 29-year-old author can write. His story is a little too convoluted, but it’s well worth the read. Gabriel Guttman (in German, ‘Gutmann’ is literally “good man”), a grisled Korean War veteran...
A fun little interactive book about tricks and treats for the youngest little hands to manipulate and giggle over.
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A fascinating collection that examines the diversity and overlapping similarities of the contemporary Korean American experience, post-L.A.-riots and a century after the...
A collection of poems that captures the experiences of a Korean American writer living in two worlds – her native Korea, her contemporary America. Neither and both are quite home as she navigates the...
Flying Aloft with Chang-rae Lee
Speaking in superlatives about Chang-rae Lee or his work seems somewhat clichéd these days. All three of his novels, Native Speaker, A Gesture Life, and his latest, Aloft, have been so lavishly...
A powerful collection of prose and poetry by a talented not-yet-30 Korean American writer, named the poet laureate of Queens, New York. In quick snapshots made of words, Park captures...
Four fun, fuzzy-covered board books from the APA queen of board books, 
A Yellow 'Country of Origin'
Technically, writer Don Lee is a third-generation Korean American. But he was born in Tokyo where his father was working for the U.S. State Department. Then after moving...
After debuting his comics regularly via website (available in color online!) and then self-publishing this first collection which sold out ever so quickly, 
Two Korean American twin sisters – one scarred from a tragic childhood accident, and the other untouched – have become estranged in adulthood. Now in their late 20s, they find themselves traveling...
Set in early 19th-century Korea, The Firekeeper’s Son is the very first picture book for Newbery Award-winner 
Every Saturday, a young boy pedals his bike to his grandmother’s house where she is waiting for him to share their weekly ritual which includes hot biscuits, the smell of cut grass,...
Written and illustrated by two Korean adoptees, Cooper's Lesson is a meaningful story about a young hapa Korean boy who, in a moment of frustration, steals a hairbrush for his mother, gets caught, and...
An entertaining coming-of-age novel-of-sorts about 20-year-old Yurika Song who is half-Japanese and half-Korean, who arrives from Japan to work for a summer at her Korean uncle's store in New York...
Behind the Mountains by Edwidge Danticat
Flight to Freedom by Ana Veciana-Suarez
Finding My Hat by John Son
The Stone Goddess by Minfong Ho
With the exception of the Native Americans—and some may still argue that they walked over the...
Part memoir, part activist handbook, part medical advice column, Hayashi who is the founder of the National Asian Women’s Health Organization, "breaks the silence” of her own history, debunks the myth of...
How timely, indeed: Two erudite Korean American professors offer multiple viewpoints on North Korea and the potential for nuclear proliferation not-so-contained within.
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With a name taken from each part of her life – Jane from her adoptive family, Jeong from her birthname, Trenka from her marriage – Trenka writes what just might be the...