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The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee [in Christian Science Monitor]

22 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, European, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Korean American, Nonethnic-specific, Repost

'The Queen of the Night' blends opera and mystery into a grandiose read Fourteen-plus years after his Whiting Award-ed debut, Edinburgh, hit shelves in late 2001, literary social media-darling Alexander Chee returns with The Queen of the Night, in which another – albeit very different –...

A Wild Swan and Other Tales by Michael Cunningham, illustrated by Yuko Shimizu [in Library Journal]

16 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Japanese, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Short Stories, Young Adult Readers

If Bruno Bettelheim's classic The Uses of Enchantment posited that fairy tales could help children understand their darkest fears, then Michael Cunningham's (The Hours) reenvisioned Other Tales charges adults to challenge perspectives. Ten stories are turned every-which-way by the author, who deftly subverts with both...

The Grownup by Gillian Flynn [in Library Journal]

04 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW While Gillian Flynn’s high-flying Gone Girl hasn't wandered far from bestsellers lists, the wait is on for what she'll publish next. She's reportedly working on a delayed new novel – a murder set in the Midwest – and has signed on with the Hogarth Shakespeare...

Little White Lies by Brianna Baker and F. Bowman Hastie III [in Booklist]

14 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Black/African American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Because she “can no longer idly sit by and consume the Little White Lies that [her] parents tell,” Coretta channels her frustration into a debut blog post about power, politics, mixed-race identity, Afros, and Rosa Parks. The blog goes viral, and Coretta’s 4.0, extracurriculars, college...

The Expatriates by Janice Y.K. Lee [in Christian Science Monitor]

13 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Hong Kongese, Korean American, Repost

'The Expatriates' explores three overlapping lives in Hong Kong While Janice Y.K. Lee’s The Expatriates might be one of your first reads of this new year, you will not be allowed to forget this book as 2016 draws to a close. Mark my words: The Expatriates...

Shelter by Jung Yun [in Library Journal]

05 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean American, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW Faced with financial crisis, college professor Kyung Cho and his wife, Gillian, are considering selling their overmortgaged home. During the initial realtor meeting, the couple discovers Kyung's mother wandering disoriented and naked beyond their backyard. Kyung misunderstands his mother's garbled Korean – the language she...

The Vegetarian by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith [in Library Journal]

14 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Repost, Translation

*STARRED REVIEW Han Kang, a South Korean writing professor with Iowa Writers Workshop training, makes her English-translation debut with this spare, spectacular novel, in which a multigenerational, seemingly traditional Seoul family implodes. Yeong-hye, the youngest of three adult children, repeatedly announces "I had a dream," violent, bloody,...

The Gap of Time [Hogarth Shakespeare] by Jeanette Winterson [in Library Journal]

10 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Black/African American, British, Fiction, Repost

Jeanette Winterson inaugurates “The Hogarth Shakespeare” series – “a major international project [that] will see Shakespeare’s plays reimagined by some of today’s bestselling and most celebrated writers” – with a contemporary reinvention of The Winter’s Tale. In Winterson’s version, the setting moves between post-2008 market-crashed London and a...

Some Kind of Courage by Dan Gemeinhart [in Booklist]

18 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Chinese American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Native American/First Nations/Indigenous Peoples, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Young Adult Readers

*STARRED REVIEW Says a grateful admirer to Joseph and his unlikely traveling companion, “You boys. You got some kind of courage.” In the Wild West of 1890 Washington State, Joseph, not yet 13, has lost his mother and sister to typhoid and his father to a...

Stars Between the Sun and Moon: One Woman’s Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom by Lucia Jang with Susan McClelland [in Library Journal]

16 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Canadian, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Korean, Memoir, Nonfiction, North Korean, Repost

Within mere months, four memoirs – including Stars – by North Korean women hit U.S. shelves: Hyeonseo Lee’s The Girl with Seven Names and Eunsun Kim’s A Thousand Miles to Freedom debuted in July; Yeonmi Park’s In Order to Live hit in September; and Stars...

Fragments of Horror by Junji Ito, translated by Jocelyne Allen

23 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Short Stories, Translation, Young Adult Readers

So it wasn't even dusk yet and already the spine was tingling as soon as I opened the book. I kept looking around to make sure what was on the page hadn't somehow escaped and was about to pounce on me. With Halloween just over...

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: A Play by David Hare, adapted from the book by Katherine Boo

14 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, British, British Asian, Drama/Theater, Indian, Nonfiction, South Asian

When Pulitzer-ed MacArthur 'Genius' Katherine Boo's first (and thus far only) book debuted in January 2012, I predicted it would be found alongside the nominees/finalists for all the Very Important Literary Prizes that year – indeed, among many, many honors, Boo won the 2012 National Book Award for Nonfiction. What...

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...

Strange Light Afar: Tales of the Supernatural from Old Japan by Rui Umezawa, illustrated by Mikiko Fujita

01 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Fiction, Japanese, Short Stories, Young Adult Readers

How did we get to the month of Halloween already? To get you ready for the upcoming fright-fest, check out these eight spooky tales that have managed to stay scary for generations. Lost ghosts, evil spirits, deceptive other-worldly beings, hauntings, murders and worse. Goosebumps gotcha...

Dance of the Banished by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

26 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Canadian, Central Asian, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Turkish, Young Adult Readers

The year is 1913. Zeynep and Ali are teenage lovers in Anatolia (once Asia Minor, now modern Turkey) who part with a lingering sense of bitterness: Ali's impending departure breaks their promise of escaping their village together. Feeling betrayed, Zeynep turns away: "I refuse to be your...

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...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Patti LaBoucane-Benson’s The Outside Circle

18 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Canadian, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Native American/First Nations/Indigenous Peoples, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2015, Young Adult Readers

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Lamar Giles’ Fake ID

14 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Black/African American, Fiction, Latina/o/x, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2015, Young Adult Readers

The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service (vol. 14) by Eiji Otsuka, art by Housui Yamazaki, translated by Toshifumi Yoshida, edited by Carl Gustav Horn

07 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Translation

After more than two-and-a-half years since volume 13 hit Stateside shelves in December 2012, the Kurosagi quintet-plus-puppet (I mean alien) are FINALLY back. And then some. Because in this latest volume, it's Kurosagi x 3, as in three distinct Kurosagi versions fighting for page time. Guess they...

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...

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