BookDragon Origin/Ethnic Background
Where Are My Books? by Debbie Ridpath Ohi
16 Jun, by in Canadian, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Children/Picture Books, Fiction
"Spencer loved books." And because he loves them so much, he makes sure to always put his books where they belong so he knows exactly where to find them next time. But one morning, he looks on his shelf and shouts in horror, "WHERE IS...
The Ever After of Ashwin Rao by Padma Viswanathan [in Christian Science Monitor]
15 Jun, by in Adult Readers, Canadian, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Repost, South Asian American
The Ever After of Ashwin Rao explores grief that lingers long after the bombing of an airliner Two weeks short of the 19th anniversary of the bombing of Air India Flight 182 – which disintegrated off the Irish coast on June 23,1985 – psychologist Ashwin Rao...
Sunday Shopping by Sally Derby, illustrated by Shadra Strickland
14 Jun, by in Black/African American, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific
"On Sunday night, after we put on our nightgowns, Grandma and I go shopping." Armed with scissors and tape, and a black purse filled with "shopping dollars [that] are easy to tell apart because they're all different colors," Evie and her grandmother open the newspaper and...
Mike’s Place: A True Story of Love, Blues, and Terror in Tel Aviv by Jack Baxter and Joshua Faudem, illustrated by Koren Shadmi
12 Jun, by in Adult Readers, British, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Israeli, Middle Eastern, Nonfiction
Most of this true, part of this is reasonable conjecture, all of it is electrifying. Filmmaker Jack Baxter arrives in Tel Aviv in 2003 to make a film that never happens. But on the night before his departure back to New York, he stumbles upon a...
Uh-Oh Octopus! by Elle van Lieshout and Erik van Os, illustrated by Mies van Hout
10 Jun, by in Children/Picture Books, European, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Translation
Full disclosure: I'm an utter Mies van Hout groupie! When I see her name on a cover, I barely need to open the book to know that I'll be getting some giddy glee. Uh-Oh Octopus! authors Elle van Lieshout & Erik van Os provide van Hout just...
Swimming, Swimming by Gary Clement
09 Jun, by in Canadian, Children/Picture Books, Fiction
If you look up Gary Clement’s Twitter, you'll see just two labels he reveals about himself: "Cartoonist, swimmer." His talent and passion for both are clearly evident here. Artist that he is, Clements' illustrations, of course, speak volumes – the endpapers back and front even include a 'how-to'...
Ghost Month [Taipei Night Market, Book 1] by Ed Lin
08 Jun, by in Adult Readers, Audio, Chinese American, Fiction, Taiwanese, Taiwanese American
Some strong suggestions first: 1. Don't read this hungry (just the phrase "Asian street food" will have many of you salivating); 2. Don't read this all alone at night. And, if you decide to 'read' by listening to narrator Feodor Chin, be further warned: he...
Halfway Home: Drawing My Way Through Japan [aka Diary of a Tokyo Teen] by Christine Mari Inzer
05 Jun, by in Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Hapa/Mixed-race, Japanese, Japanese American, Memoir, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers
On the book's front cover, mega-bestselling Bone-creator Jeff Smith uses the word "wonderful." On the back, French Milk’s award-winning Lucy Knisley talks about "the wit and pen of someone well beyond her years." Inside, those blurbs get further expanded, followed by many more phrases of praise, including...
The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud, translated by John Cullen [in Christian Science Monitor]
04 Jun, by in Adult Readers, African, Arab, European, Fiction, French, Repost, Translation
The Meursault Investigation cleverly builds on The Stranger by Camus In a New Yorker interview this March, Algerian journalist Kamel Daoud spoke of reading the iconic 1942 classic, The Stranger by Albert Camus – in which a man arbitrarily commits murder and is tried and sentenced...
Ink and Ashes by Valynne Maetani + Author Interview [in Bloom]
03 Jun, by in Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Japanese American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers
Having lived most of my life in cities, being temporarily stuck in a small ski resort town in the Wild West has been quite the challenge. Whenever I leave Dodge, I seem to take a good percentage of the diversity with me. When – shall...
Pool by JiHyeon Lee
02 Jun, by in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean
Who needs text when you've got an outsized imagination and playful perspective like Korean artist JiHyeon Lee? Looking beyond the surface should always garner such audacious rewards! A boy in goggles surveys the crowded pool before him. Floats, oars, laughter, screeching, frowns confront him with virtually...
The Way Things Were by Aatish Taseer [in Library Journal]
01 Jun, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American
Aatish Taseer's latest opens with a mother's call to her Manhattan-based son, asking him to ferry his just-deceased father's body from Geneva back to Delhi. Though a minor Indian prince, "Toby" G.M.P.R. Kalasuryaketu – half-actually Scottish, half-Indian – was more a foreign "novelty" in his...
Song for a Summer Night: A Lullaby by Robert Heidbreder, illustrated by Qin Leng
30 May, by in Canadian, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Children/Picture Books, Fiction
In spite of the thunderous rainy hail that greeted me upon arrival at the Salt Lake City airport on Thursday night, I've convinced myself that summer really is on the way in these here mountainous parts! And mark my words: I'm looking forward to the star-gazing...
Prophecy (vol. 3) by Tetsuya Tsutsui, translated by Kumar Sivasubramanian
29 May, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Translation, Young Adult Readers
New readers, take note: Prophecy is a three-part series that needs to be read in order. No shortcuts, no interruptions. To catch up, go back here before continuing further. The final volume begins in the midst of an emergency call that should never have been made: “There...
Hanok: The Korean House by Nani Park and Robert J. Fouser, photography by Jongkeun Lee
28 May, by in Adult Readers, Korean, Korean American, Nonfiction
Two of my favorite people in the world are becoming Seoul residents! Which means more reason for prolonged visits, hopefully sooner than later. One of the experiences I'm determined to make happen is an intense exploration of hanok. If your curiosity is at all piqued, definitely...
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