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A Drifting Life by Tatsumi Yoshihiro, edited and designed by Adrian Tomine, translated by Taro Nettleton [in Bloomsbury Review]

06 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Translation

This 850-plus page autobiographical epic is truly a portrait of an artist as a young man, done manga style. A child of 10 in 1945 post-war Japan, Hiroshi – Tatsumi’s pseudonymous stand-in – makes manga obsessively. His regularly winning contest submissions soon bring him acclaim,...

The Vagrants by Yiyun Li [in Bloomsbury Review]

06 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost

Full disclosure: this is one of the most heartbreaking books you’ll probably ever read. But read it you should. A young woman – a political victim of post-Mao China – is about to die. While her voice remains missing throughout the novel, the many residents of...

Sacred Mountain Everest by Christine Taylor-Butler [in Bloomsbury Review]

05 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Middle Grade Readers, Nepali, Nonfiction, Repost

An informative look – underscored with lively photographs – at the history and future of Mount Everest, a sacred place for the locals, overtaken by adventurous tourism, and currently suffering the high price of so-called modern progress. Review: "In Celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month:...

Cycle of Rice, Cycle of Life: A Story of Sustainable Farming by Jan Reynolds [in Bloomsbury Review]

05 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Balinese, Children/Picture Books, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Repost

The planting and harvesting of the core food product of Bali – rice – is an exercise in careful natural balance by the local farmers. But when the government gets involved and introduces genetically modified hybrid rice and chemical fertilizers, the perfect cycle breaks and...

The Color of Earth and The Color of Water by Kim Dong Hwa, translated by Lauren Na [in Bloomsbury Review]

02 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Korean, Repost, Translation

The first two books in a trilogy by manhwa (Korean graphic novel) master Kim introduce English readers to two generations of strong women – a beautiful widowed mother and her blossoming teenage daughter – intimately sharing their lives in early-20th century Korea. While the mother, who runs...

Everything Asian: A Novel by Sung J. Woo [in Bloomsbury Review]

26 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean American, Repost

Loosely woven together from revealing vignettes about the interconnected characters that share 12-year-old protagonist Dae Joon Kim's world, Sung Woo's debut novel is a well-measured, carefully laid out storycloth filled with tenderness and great warmth. After five years of separation, Dae Joon (soon to be David), his sister...

English by Wang Gang, translated by Martin Merz and Jane Weizhen Pan [in Bloomsbury Review]

25 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese, Fiction, Repost, Translation

At 12, Love Liu lives with his architect parents in the village of Ürümchi in the Xinjiang region of northeast China. Growing up during the Cultural Revolution means he is surrounded by discontent and fear – his parents, his friends, their parents must always be diligently...

Riverbig: A Novel by Aris Janigian [in San Francisco Chronicle]

23 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Armenian American, Fiction, Repost

Far too many immigration stories begin with an escape from tragedy – everything from economic hardship to devastating wars. The Armenian American experience is tragically rooted in the Armenian genocide of 1915 to 1918, the systematic massacre of an estimated 1 to 2 million Armenians. A...

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin [in Bloomsbury Review]

22 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Spunky and independent Minli can't bear to see her parents leading such harsh lives, especially her mother who is so discontented with the family's poverty that she can't even enjoy the glorious stories Minli's father regularly tells her. Minli is determined to change her family's...

Homegrown House by Janet S. Wong, illustrated by E.B. Lewis [in Bloomsbury Review]

18 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost

While Grandmom has had only two houses in her 65 years – and 40 years to make her current house "homegrown" – a little 8-year-old girl already has lived in three. Now that she's made five best friends and finally put her bookshelf in alphabetical order,...

China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation by Xinran, translated by Nicky Harman, Julia Lovell, and Esther Tyldesley [in San Francisco Chronicle]

16 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese, Nonfiction, Repost

Since the 2002 best-seller The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices, Beijing-born London journalist Xinran has emerged as an international dynamo reclaiming the voices of neglected citizens throughout her homeland. Her subsequent titles – Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet, What the Chinese Don't Eat, Miss Chopsticks, and even her...

The Weight of Heaven by Thrity Umrigar [in Bloomsbury Review]

13 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American

Frank and Ellie Benton have had the unthinkable happen to them: their precious 7-year-old son has died of a sudden illness. Even while Ellie is wracked with guilt, Frank blames her for what he believes was her negligence in not taking him to the hospital quickly...

The Eternal Smile by Gene Luen Yang and Derek Kirk Kim [in Bloomsbury Review]

13 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Korean American, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Young Adult Readers

From two of the most successful names in contemporary graphic novels – Gene Luen Yang, whose multi-award-winning American Born Chinese was the first-ever graphic novel to be a finalist for the National Book Award, and Derek Kirk Kim, the equally multi-award-winning author of groundbreaking Same Difference and...

Haunting Bombay by Shilpa Agarwal [in Bloomsbury Review]

13 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American

Pinky Mittal, a 13-year-old schoolgirl in 1960s Bombay, lives with her extended family in a sprawling family bungalow in one of the city's more fashionable neighborhoods. Her grandmother, who rescued her after her mother's death as an toddler, dotes on her. Her aunt-by-marriage barely puts...

A Party in Ramadan by Asma Mobin-Udden, illustrated by Laura Jacobsen [in Bloomsbury Review]

09 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Pakistani American, Repost, South Asian American

When young Leena is invited to Julia's pony party which happens to fall on the first Friday of Ramadan, she decides she will go anyway and just not eat or drink. During the month of Ramadan, observant Muslims fast during the day as a sign...

Almost Single by Advaita Kala [in Bloomsbury Review]

24 Feb, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Indian, Repost, South Asian

Much to her mother's chagrin, Aisha has almost reached the big 3-0 and (gasp!) and is still single – but she's smart, independent, and definitely fun-loving. Working as the guest relations manager of a swanky Delhi hotel, she knows all about fast-paced city life. One...

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin [in Bloomsbury Review]

09 Feb, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Pakistani, Pakistani American, Repost, Short Stories, South Asian, South Asian American

What can I say? This debut collection is a gift. In eight intertwined stories using spare, perfectly measured language, hapa Pakistani American Daniyal Mueenuddin captures the lives of the haves and have-nots – money, position, power – with both precision and grace. Each of the collection's characters...

Absolutely Maybe by Lisa Yee [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Feb, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Seventeen-year-old Maybelline Mary Katherine Mary Ann Chestnut, aka "Maybe," escapes the clutches of her slimy stepfather-to-be, for whom her ex-beauty queen alcoholic mother insists she'll walk down the aisle a seventh time. Maybe decides it's high time to go find her real father, the one...

Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Feb, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Australian, Australian Asian, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Short Stories

From the genius mind that brought you the wordlessly breathtaking bestseller, The Arrival, comes a collection of 15 short stories for all ages, uniquely illustrated in Tan's signature enigmatic style. The second story, "Eric," about the visit by a foreign exchange student like no one has...

The Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K. Lee [in Christian Science Monitor] [in Bloomsbury Review]

31 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, British, Chinese, Hapa/Mixed-race, Hong Kongese, Korean American, Repost

Something about Janice Y.K. Lee’s debut novel, The Piano Teacher, whispers, “Watch me.” Populated with a cast of “wandering global voyagers,” Lee unfurls her story, set in Hong Kong during and after World War II, layer by layer and in cinematic snippets. Captured in clipped, almost abbreviated...

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