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I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb

27 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Memoir, Nonfiction, Pakistani, Young Adult Readers

"'Who is Malala?'" the gunman demanded on that fateful day, October 9, 2012, before he shot three bullets into a bus carrying teenage girls to school. Unable to answer then, Malala answers now in her new memoir for all the world to read: "I am...

Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler

26 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost

"Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person," Anne Tyler's oldie-but-goodie begins, especially enhanced with the inimitable Blair Brown as welcome, familiar narrator. "How on earth did I get like this? How? How did I ever...

Sickness Unto Death (vols. 1-2) by Hikaru Asada, illustrated by Takahiro Seguchi, translated by Vertical, Inc.

24 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Translation, Young Adult Readers

Determined to become a clinical psychologist, young Futaba arrives in an unnamed city to begin college. Before he even gets to his lodgings – arranged through a friend of his father's – he helps a young woman who collapses in a crowded plaza. While he can't deny...

Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami by Gretel Ehrlich

23 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Japanese, Memoir, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction

Before discussing content, I must start with a warning about presentation – think of it as a public service announcement: Choose the page, choose the page, choose the page! Although narrator Sumalee Montano (an American actress of Filipina and Thai/Chinese descent with a Harvard degree) lists...

Songs of Willow Frost by Jamie Ford

22 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Chinese American, Fiction

Here's what a fairly recent (pubbed September 2013) bestseller looks like. It hasn't gotten any major nominations or awards (perhaps I should add 'yet,' as author Jamie Ford's debut, Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, garnered a few nods); nevertheless, it's certainly sold plenty of...

A Well-Tempered Heart by Jan-Philipp Sendker, translated by Kevin Wiliarty

21 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, European, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Myanmarese (Burmese), Myanmarese (Burmese) American, Southeast Asian, Translation

Every once in a while, only the very best schmaltz will do. Earnest and endearing, this just-arriving-in-translation sequel to the international mega-bestseller, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, is a through-the-night read that will leave you sighing and swooning. Okay, so we're not talking Nobel-quality: "'I speak of a...

Under the Same Sun by Sharon Robinson, illustrated by AG Ford

20 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in African, Black/African American, Children/Picture Books, Memoir, Nonfiction

An 85-year-old grandmother makes a special birthday trip from the U.S. to Tanzania where three generations celebrate with a surprise safari through Serengeti National Park. The story is special enough ...

Wandering Son (vol. 6) by Shimura Takako, translated by Matt Thorn

17 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Middle Grade Readers, Translation, Young Adult Readers

Our daughter, now a senior at one of the most progressive of progressive schools where she's been a 'lifer,' was recently trying to explain the specifics of what 'gender-fluid' means using a classmate's evolving, changing behavior as descriptive examples. We old folks were still a...

The Frangipani Hotel by Violet Kupersmith [in Library Journal]

16 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Repost, Short Stories, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American, Vietnamese, Vietnamese American

*STARRED REVIEW What is most haunting in Kupersmith's nine multi-layered pieces are not the specters, whose tales are revealed as stories within stories, but the lingering loss and disconnect endured by the still living. With an American father and a Vietnamese "former boat refugee" mother, the...

Kinder Than Solitude by Yiyun Li [in Library Journal]

15 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW In her first title since she received a 2010 MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship, Yiyun Li again explores the far-reaching repercussions of a single person's death. While her mesmerizing The Vagrants (2009) revolved around the execution of a young political victim, here, three childhood friends take...

King for a Day by Rukhsana Khan, illustrated by Christiane Krömer

14 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Canadian Asian Pacific American, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Pakistani, Pakistani American, South Asian American

With the arrival of the spring festival in Lahore, Pakistan, no one is more excited than Malik who is ready for the upcoming kite-flying battles armed with Falcon. "'How can you be king of Basant with only one kite?'" his sister teases. "'Insha Allah, it...

Dogs at the Perimeter by Madeleine Thien

13 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Cambodian, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Fiction, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American

Above all else, Janie is a survivor. She escaped the horrifying deaths that took her entire family in her native Cambodia. She's outlived her adoptive Canadian mother who passed away just last year. She's built a fulfilling career as a scientist specializing in brain research. She's...

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

12 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific

According to a recent article, "The Book(s) of the Year" in PublishersLunch, "the clear consensus for the 2013 'book of the year' has ended in ...

Parrots Over Puerto Rico by Susan L. Roth and Cindy Trumbore, illustrated by Susan L. Roth

11 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Caribbean, Children/Picture Books, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Puerto Rican

Co-authors Susan L. Roth and Cindy Trumbore, whose last project  à deux was the glorious The Mangrove Tree set in the tiny African country of Eritrea, travel south to the Caribbean to present another memorable story of preservation and conservation. Welcome to Puerto Rico, home of the Puerto Rican parrot, also...

Author Interview: Nina Schuyler (Part 2) [in Bloom]

09 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Japanese, Nonethnic-specific, Repost

Following is Part 2 of an extensive interview with author  Nina Schuyler. Click here to read Part 1. Click here for the Schuyler feature. As a writer who is a woman, who also happens to be a mother of two small young kids – do you feel...

Author Interview: Nina Schuyler (Part 1) [in Bloom]

08 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Japanese, Nonethnic-specific, Repost

With all the vastness of the internet, I had quite a difficult time finding answers to the sorts of questions I had about Nina Schuyler and her relationship to her fiction – most especially regarding race and identity. (I know, so loaded!) In both of her lauded novels...

Stingray by Kim Joo-young, translated by Inrae You Vinciguera and Louis Vinciguerra (Library of Korean Literature, vol. 1)

07 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Translation

At 13, Se-young is on the brink of manhood, but the person who should be his primary role model – his father – left some five years ago. Se-young’s seamstress mother works hard to support the abandoned pair in their small, remote village. Their constricted...

Author Profile: Nina Schuyler [in Bloom]

06 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Japanese, Nonethnic-specific, Repost

"Like most writers, I work at the edges of the day" Wife, mother, teacher, poet, writer – Nina Schuyler wears many labels. Her youngest is still a toddler, she balances multiple part-time jobs, keeps up with the daily-life expectations of cooking and laundry, soccer and basketball mom-ing, not...

Triton of the Sea (vols. 1-2) by Osamu Tezuka, translated by Eugene Woodbury, edited by Eileen Tse

03 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Middle Grade Readers, Translation, Young Adult Readers

When I say 'brought to you by popular demand,' I have indisputable proof here: 715 supporters put up almost 150% more than the requested funds in answer to Digital Manga's 2012 Kickstarter campaign to bring Triton of the Sea (along with two additional Tezuka titles, Unico and...

The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly by Sun-mi Hwang, translated by Chi-Young Kim, illustrated by Nomoco

01 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Translation, Young Adult Readers

This new year couldn't start off with a better title. At a mere 134 pages, it's perfect to read in a single sitting, although the story's loving spirit is sure to linger. It's also the ideal gift to share with anyone and everyone who holds...

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