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The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin [in School Library Journal]

05 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Absolute Favorites, Audio, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Young Adult Readers

*STARRED REVIEW Suzy and Franny met in a pool back when "making a friend, and having one, seem[ed] like the easiest thing in the world." But just before seventh grade, Franny – who could already swim underwater at age 5 – is dead by drowning. Smart, logical, full-of-facts...

Husky by Justin Sayre [in School Library Journal]

04 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Davis knows that every kid will "get boiled down to only one adjective…. It's decided. There. Permanent." Among his closest friends, Ellen is Mean, while Sophie is Pretty. Davis is "the Fat one, but everyone calls [him] husky." He hopes to escape his adjective, but being...

Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy [in School Library Journal]

03 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Young Adult Readers

*STARRED REVIEW "The word fat makes some people uncomfortable," Willowdean Dickson remarks. Called Dumplin’ by her mother, Will insists that fat is "not an insult." She's comfortably self-aware, buoyed by her late aunt, whom she still deeply mourns, and her picture-perfect best friend. When she introduces herself...

Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon [in School Library Journal]

02 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Black/African American, Caribbean American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Japanese American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers

*STARRED REVIEW Nicola Yoon’s superb debut begins and ends with books. Stories are how 18-year-old Madeline has survived with Severe Combined Immunodeficiency – "you know it as 'bubble baby disease’" – in her sanitized world that includes only her doctor mother and a nurse. She's been content...

The Hundred Year Flood by Matthew Salesses [in Library Journal]

20 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean American, Repost

Lying in a Boston hospital with “rare brain damage,” Tee is working toward “reorienting him[self] to the world he’d never understood.” He is 22, a mixed-race Korean American adoptee, evacuated back home after a vicious attack in Prague, where he lived for nine months following 9/11....

Love Love by Sung J. Woo [in Library Journal]

19 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean American, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW At 40, Kevin Lee, an almost-tennis-pro-turned-club-instructor, finds out he’s adopted when he tries to donate a kidney to his less-than-deserving widower father. The only clues to Kevin's identity are an unfinished letter from his late mother with a nude centerfold of his birthmother. Meanwhile, his younger...

The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness by Kyung-sook Shin, translated by Ha-yun Jung [in Library Journal]

15 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Repost, Translation

*STARRED REVIEW Credited with revitalizing Korea’s publishing industry, Shin’s 2011 Please Look After Mom (the author’s debut in English) made this international powerhouse the first woman to win the Man Asian Literary Prize. Her latest, arriving stateside 20 years after its Korean publication, is part memoir,...

Death by Water by Kenzaburō Ōe, translated by [in Christian Science Monitor]

06 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese, Repost, Translation

Death by Water takes readers on a wild ride of epic proportions In addition to being noted for his prodigious literary accomplishments, 1994 Nobel Prize-winning Kenzaburō Ōe is known for being politically outspoken. He made international headlines again during this year’s 70th anniversary of the Nagasaki/Hiroshima...

The Investigation by J.M. Lee, translated by Chi-Young Kim [in Library Journal]

20 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Repost, Translation

*STARRED REVIEW Watanabe Yuichi sits behind bars in Japan’s infamous Fukuoka Prison. After World War II, the former “soldier-guard” is now an incarcerated “low-level war criminal” under U.S. control. His written confession, which highlights two people — “one prisoner and one guard; one poet and one...

The Cartographer of No Man’s Land by P.S. Duffy + Author Interview [Bloom]

19 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Canadian, European, Fiction, Repost

Freshly back from the Jersey Shore, debut novelist P.S. Duffy talks about writing her first book at age 10 although she didn’t publish her first novel until she was 65, her inability to ever return to her birth country of China, and how a stranger’s...

Wind / Pinball by Haruki Murakami, translated by Ted Goossen [in Library Journal]

06 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese, Repost, Translation

*STARRED REVIEW Before A Wild Sheep Chase made Murakami an international sensation, he wrote these “kitchen-table novels,” so named for where his composition efforts took place after he wrapped up managing his Tokyo jazz bar for the day. Both Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973...

Dragonfish by Vu Tran + Author Interview [in Bloom]

05 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Repost, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American, Vietnamese, Vietnamese American

“This man who once saved your life, he is not a bad man. Nor a good one,” a mother writes her daughter. “I have long given up on what it means exactly to be either. But I am confident now that you must know one...

Flood of Fire [Ibis Trilogy, Book 3] by Amitav Ghosh [in Christian Science Monitor]

04 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese, Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American

Flood of Fire brings the astounding, exceptional Ibis Trilogy to a close Readers of this review will fall into two categories: (1) Those who are already two-thirds invested in the Ibis Trilogy, and (2) Newbies who might be wondering if continuing the perusal of this review...

How much do you know about literature by and about immigrants? [in Christian Science Monitor]

07 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Lists, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost

How much do you know about literature by and about immigrants? Try our quiz! How much do you know about literature by and about immigrants, old and new? Test your melting pot, tossed salad, multi-culti, all-American literary knowledge here … from A to Z! Published: Christian Science...

Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee + Author Interview [in Bookslut]

06 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Author Interview/Profile, Black/African American, Chinese American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers

When Samantha Young swoops out of her father's dry goods store still angry from the news that they will soon be leaving Missouri for California – the exact opposite direction from New York – she couldn't possibly have realized that her life would literally be...

How much do you know about women’s literature? [in Christian Science Monitor]

22 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Lists, Nonfiction, Repost

How much do you know about women's literature? From the oldest novel to the youngest Booker Prize-winner, from poetry to twitterature, from Alabama to Zimbabwe, women writers have added immeasurable diversity and enhanced the quality of what can be found on bookshelves worldwide. How much do...

The Ever After of Ashwin Rao by Padma Viswanathan [in Christian Science Monitor]

15 Jun, by SIBookDragon 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...

The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud, translated by John Cullen [in Christian Science Monitor]

04 Jun, by SIBookDragon 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 SIBookDragon 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...

The Way Things Were by Aatish Taseer [in Library Journal]

01 Jun, by SIBookDragon 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...

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