Over the Shoulder: A Novel of Intrigue by Leonard Chang [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]
01 Jun, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean American, Repost
Silicon Valley thriller with a Korean American hero who could have kicked a little more ass, but adds a few new twists to the meaning of "family secrets." Our hero Allen Choice's...
A quirky debut collection populated by the inhabitants of a fictional California seaside town, not unlike Half Moon Bay. Lee's memorable characters are so real, you'll swear you know some of them! Absolutely fabulous.
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The Easiest Thing to Do Is Stop Writing
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In Search of Mothers
Joanna Catherine Scott, British by birth, Australian by upbringing, and American by chance, is also Asian by association. She is one of a handful – thus far – of...
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A Legacy of Survival
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A hardworking, childless elderly couple are led to the fountain of youth by a mysterious bluebird and warned to take just a sip. Their greedy neighbor hears about their discovery, rushes to the magic...
Every year, the extended Yang family gathers from all over the Hawaiian island of Oahu at Grandma’s house to celebrate New Year’s Eve. This year, young Marisa will help make the dumplings for Grandma’s...
The stranger Mr. Oh requests to borrow a huge sum of money from wealthy Sir Whong in order to help his ill mother. He offers a...
A man is tricked into saving a tiger trapped in a pit, but once freed, the tiger intends to eat his savior. The man insists they get a second opinion, first from a tree...
The court physician advises the ill Dragon King of the East Sea that in order to recover, he needs the raw liver of a rabbit. The turtle volunteers to bring back a rabbit from...
Yunmi’s grandmother (her "Halmoni," in Korean) has recently arrived from Korea and has difficulty adjusting to life in America. With the help of her friends, Yunmi persuades her grandmother to...
Alice Larsen is a popular seventh-grade cheerleader. Then Yoon Jun Lee arrives from Korea, and Alice’s father wants her to be his friend. Although...
It’s senior year in high school and Ellen understandably wants to spend time with her friends, but her parents expect her to study even more she can get into Harvard. Ellen must...
Ellen has left her small hometown for Harvard University, where she becomes good friends with her African American roommate and finds new friends among the Korean American students. She comes face-to-face with the reality...
Stella Kim can’t understand how Eileen, once her best friend, can now be so mean-spirited. Stella’s other friend Rachel doesn’t understand why Stella won’t speak up for herself. Little by little, Stella finds her own unique...
A group of lyrical, interrelated shorts stories about multi-generations of the Kim family, who begin their American lives in the Korean camp section of a Hawaiian sugarcane plantation in the early 1900s. As the...
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