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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

05 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, African, Cambodian, Chinese American, Indian, Middle Eastern, Nonfiction, Southeast Asian

Half the Sky is a remarkable, life-changing book. It should be required reading for all adults (and more mature young adults), but especially for us overprivileged, lucky-solely-by-chance-of-birth citizens of the West. If there is ONE book you read this new year, let it be this...

The Disappeared by Kim Echlin

31 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Cambodian, Canadian, Fiction, Southeast Asian

One Halloween night when Anne Greves is 16, she goes with older friends to a jazz club and falls in love for the first time in her young life. Serey is an older man, already in his 20s, a musician, who has already lived too...

A Million Shades of Grey by Cynthia Kadohata

25 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Fiction, Japanese American, Middle Grade Readers, Southeast Asian, Vietnamese, Young Adult Readers

Cynthia Kadohata – who won the top American children's book honor, the Newbery Medal, in 2005 for her debut middle-grade title, Kira-Kira –returns with a heartbreaking story about a young Vietnamese boy and his special relationship with the elephant in his charge. High in the central highlands of war-torn...

Noodle Pie by Ruth Starke

23 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Australian, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Southeast Asian, Vietnamese, Young Adult Readers

Andy Nguyen is most definitely Australian, not Vietnamese. And yet his father insists they're going "home" to Vietnam, somewhere Andy has never been. Andy's Dad is Viet Kieu, a name given to Vietnamese-born immigrants who live in other countries around the world. Returning Viet Kieu...

The Silence of God and Other Plays by Catherine Filloux

23 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Cambodian, Drama/Theater, Jewish, Nonethnic-specific, Southeast Asian, Turkish

Playwright Catherine (pronounced Ka-treen) Filloux has built her dramatic reputation on giving voice to lost, overlooked souls. In Lemkin's House, Filloux presents the struggle of Raphael Lemkin, a Polish American lawyer whom she refers to as her "historical soulmate," a man who coined the term "genocide"...

The Vietnam War: A Graphic History by Dwight Jon Zimmerman and Wayne Vansant, foreword by General Chuck Horner (Ret.)

03 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Nonfiction, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American, Vietnamese, Vietnamese American, Young Adult Readers

The Vietnam War undoubtedly remains one of the most confusing, hotly-debated events of world history. Decades later, the war's legacy cannot be accurately measured, much less fully understood. Just in time for back-to-school, the first-ever graphic version – 140 pages of black-and-white-drawings – of the complicated war...

all the broken pieces: a novel in verse by Ann E. Burg

06 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Middle Grade Readers, Poetry, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American, Verse Novel/Nonfiction, Vietnamese American, Young Adult Readers

Not only will you be unable to put this down, you'll have to be careful to remember to breathe while reading this unforgettable debut novel written entirely in free verse. By age 10, Matt Pin has already had a harrowing life as a child of...

I Loves Yous Are for White People: A Memoir by Lac Su [in San Francisco Chronicle]

02 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American, Vietnamese American

Lac Su is a survivor of things so harrowing that just recounting some of those experiences, even from the distance of a keyboard tapping out a review of his memoir, I Love Yous Are for White People, makes the heart wince. As a 5-year-old immigrant to...

The Naked Eye by Yoko Tawada, translated by Susan Bernofsky

14 May, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, European, Fiction, Japanese, Southeast Asian, Translation, Vietnamese

Every time I read a Yoko Tawada title, I almost want to go finish my almost-ABD PhD (in post-war German and Japanese literatures). Sadly, I recently got the news that my advisor/mentor passed away, so going back would be impossible without him; even though I didn't...

Unpolished Gem: My Mother, My Grandmother, and Me by Alice Pung

08 May, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Australian, Australian Asian, Cambodian, Memoir, Nonfiction, Southeast Asian, Young Adult Readers

Already a many-time-many-variety award-winner in her native Australia, Alice Pung's debut memoir arrives Stateside filled with humor and bittersweet grace. Born one month after her family arrived in Melbourne, Australia, after fleeing the killing fields of Cambodia, Pung's father chooses her name for "a story...

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama

16 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Black/African American, Indonesian, Indonesian American, Nonfiction, Pacific Islander, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American, Young Adult Readers

The inaugural post for a historic inaugural year! While finding out so much more about our first African American president, you can also discover his Asian Pacific American cultural heritage, as well. He was born in Hawai’i, his father-figure ages 4-6 was an Indonesian man, Lolo...

Evening Is the Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Malaysian, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American, Southeast Asian, Young Adult Readers

evening-is-a-whole-day The wealthy Rajesekharan family of Ipoh, Malaysia is suddenly in shambles. Chellam, one of the family servants, has been mysteriously dismissed and leaves in utter disgrace. The bitter, difficult family matriarch is dead. Her son is...

The Burma Chronicles by Guy Delisle, translated by Helge Dascher [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Canadian, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Memoir, Myanmarese (Burmese), Nonfiction, Repost, Southeast Asian, Translation

burma-chronicles With amazingly effective simplicity, artist Guy Delisle takes you to Burma through an ex-pat’s perspective. He arrives with his wife, a Médecins San Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) aid worker, shortly after the devastating...

The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 May, by SIBookDragon in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, British, Chinese, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Japanese, Malaysian, Repost, Southeast Asian

gift-of-rain1 IF YOU READ ONE BOOK, LET IT BE THIS EPIC STUNNER! One rainy evening, an elderly gentleman finds himself opening the door to his past in the form an elderly woman who arrives bearing a gift....

A Song for Cambodia by Michelle Lord, illustrated by Shino Arihara [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 May, by SIBookDragon in Biography, Cambodian, Cambodian American, Children/Picture Books, Nonfiction, Repost, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American

song-for-cambodia Arn Chorn-Pond was just 8 years old when he was torn from his family in 1975 as the Khmer Rouge invaded Cambodia. He survives years of unimaginable atrocities with only rare moments of music to soothe...

Kampung Boy and Town Boy by Lat [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Malaysian, Repost, Southeast Asian, Young Adult Readers

kampung-and-town-boy A delightful, joyful pair of titles about a young Muslim boy, Mat, growing up in a rural village (kampung) in 1960s Malaysia and his everyday joy of discovery and plain fun. Town Boy continues with...

Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram, translated by Andrew X. Pham with an introduction by Frances FitzGerald [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Southeast Asian, Translation, Vietnamese

last-night-i-dreamed-of-peace Already a runaway bestseller in Vietnam, this diary will break your heart – but offer you hope that in the worst of times, we human beings can be miraculously humane. As a young doctor working for communist...

My South Seas Sleeping Beauty: A Tale of Memory and Longing by Zhang Guixing, translated by Valerie Jaffee [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese, Fiction, Malaysian, Repost, Southeast Asian, Taiwanese, Translation

my-south-seas-sleeping-beauty Su Qi, a sensitive Chinese Malaysian youth, comes of age in the magical jungles of Borneo, shaped by the cruelty he witnesses at the hands of his abusive father and his loving but withdrawn mother. He...

The Killing Sea by Richard Lewis [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 May, by SIBookDragon in Fiction, Indonesian, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Southeast Asian, Young Adult Readers

killing-sea American teenager Sarah would much rather be hanging out with her friends back home in an air-conditioned mall than being stuck with her family vacationing in faraway Indonesia. When the massive tsunami of 2004 hits the...

Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski [in Washington Post]

08 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Southeast Asian, Thai

fieldwork1 Even with a protagonist who shares the author's name, as well as various biographical similarities, Mischa Berlinski's first book is indeed a work of fiction: "None of this stuff happened to anyone," he insists in the...

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