Little Sap and Monsieur Rodin by Michelle Lord, illustrated by Felicia Hoshino [in Bloomsbury Review]
01 May, by in Cambodian, Children/Picture Books, European, Fiction, Repost, Southeast Asian
Little Sap, a poor country girl, is chosen to become one of the royal court dancers of Cambodia. She travels to France on a royal tour in 1906, where she inspires the legendary French artist Auguste...
Lam’s keen journalistic experience as NPR commentator and Pacific News Service editor comes through clearly in this collection of noteworthy essays. He weaves personal story and reports from the Vietnamese American community of which...
After her mother suddenly deserts the family, Amy and her father are left alone to create a new life across the country in California. A heartbreaking coming-of-age tale about growing up Cambodian...
Complete with rudimentary drawings of tongue positions for proper pronunciation, this guide has quite the collection of translated sentences: “These models do have their sexually flaming excited bodies.” I’ll stick with the “Please, give...
First reaction: WOW! Second reaction: Read it! The story revolves around the Harmony Silk Factory, a textiles shop in rural Malaysia run by Johnny Lim, part crook, part untouchable legend.
Three narrators...
One child escapes, the other is left behind: In this continuation of the bestseller, 
A collection of 10 inventive stories that capture a glimpse of contemporary life in a Vietnamese village where the writer, actress, director, and painter Doan Le lived for 30 years...
With the 30th anniversary this year of the end of the Vietnam-U.S. War (and the 30th anniversary of the first significant wave of Vietnamese immigration to the United States), expect a lot more titles...
Clint Eastwood, Summer Love, and Cockfighting
The good news first: Rattawut Lapcharoensap’s family in Thailand is all fine; the tsunami thankfully did not harm them. The other good news: His collection of short stories, Sightseeing, which debuts...
Genius Han Ong: The Outsider American
Han Ong, who made international headlines as one of the 
An engaging memoir by the adopted son of a famed Vietnamese doctor and spiritual master. Growing up in a country devastated by war, the mischievous son eventually learns...
An ethnographic study of gay Filipino men in New York City, with stories culled from interviews with 50 men between 1990 and 1995, including a fascinating look at the unique gay Filipino American vernacular...
According to editors Nguyen and Sachs, “In the history of modern Vietnamese literature, no writer has provoked more debate than Nguyen Huy Thiep.” Indeed, his images of Vietnam are hardly flattering, a...
This behemoth anthology – the largest collection of its kind – made up of 45 Vietnamese authors of various backgrounds, is divided into five thematic sections that represent five contemporary periods of...
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...
A simple counting book to celebrate the Vietnamese new year, or Tet, which begins on the first day of the lunar calendar. At the book’s end is a section that...
The latest in the 
In another British import of a debut novel, Manicka draws from her own history to create a family saga of four generations and 70 years. At the family’s core is its matriarch, Lakshmi, who...
Her Bum Is on Fire: Jessica Hagedorn debuts with her latest novel
After years of chatting on the phone and sending various e-mails back and forth, I finally got the chance to meet writer extraordinaire...