Hello Kitty Must Die by Angela S. Choi
27 Mar, by in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction
What a fast-paced, can’t put-down, biting, over-the-top debut! You'll have to read it for the body count alone ...
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The Poker Bride: The First Chinese in the Wild West by Christopher Corbett [in San Francisco Chronicle]
20 Mar, by in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Nonfiction, Repost
The Poker Bride: The First Chinese in the Wild West, by Christopher Corbett, is an oddly disturbing read, not so much for its content but for its publication as a historical text about Asian American pioneer woman Polly Bemis, Corbett's eponymous "poker bride." Problems with historical...
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
19 Mar, by in Adult Readers, Audio, Korean, Nonfiction, North Korean
Barbara Demick, currently the Beijing bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, spent five years as Seoul's bureau chief where she had unprecedented access to North Koreans. Her interviews, which began in 2001, eventually became Nothing to Envy, a mind-boggling, heartbreaking, surreal-ly humanizing portrait of six...
Half Life by Roopa Farooki
18 Mar, by in Adult Readers, British Asian, Fiction, Pakistani, South Asian
I don't know why the galley's back cover touts "shades of Slumdog Millionaire and The Namesake" because this book has no overlaps with either of those titles, much less their authors, or even locations! Really, not all brown people look alike – authors or their characters! Slumdog...
Slightly Behind and to the Left: Four Stories & Three Drabbles by Claire Light
17 Mar, by in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Hapa/Mixed-race, Short Stories
I used to think of myself as a well-rounded reader ...
Three Sisters by Bi Feiyu [in Library Journal]
15 Mar, by in Adult Readers, Chinese, Fiction, Repost, Translation
Although the cover of Bi's novel displays a character for "triple happiness" – ostensibly representing the eponymous three sisters – readers shouldn't expect a happily-ever-after tale. After seven daughters, Party Secretary Wang sees his self-esteem redeemed with the birth of a son. Firstborn Yumi, the de facto...
Seaglass Summer by Anjali Banerjee
11 Mar, by in Fiction, Indian American, Middle Grade Readers, South Asian American
When her parents take their annual summer trip to India, 11-year-old Poppy decides it's the perfect chance to spend a month with her veterinarian Uncle Sanjay who runs an animal clinic on Nisqually Island off Washington’s coast. How else can she learn to be a...
Translucent (vol. 3) by Kazuhiro Okamoto, translated by Heidi Plechl
10 Mar, by in Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Middle Grade Readers, Translation, Young Adult Readers
The adventures of Shizuka Shiroyama and her two best sidekicks, strong-willed Okouchi and ever-cheerful Tadami, continues in this third installment with some guilty feelings, a heartwarming wedding, and dealing with a meddlesome doctor's awkward attempts at matchmaking because she still can't get over her own...
Translucent (vol. 2) by Kazuhiro Okamoto, translated by Heidi Plechl
09 Mar, by in Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Middle Grade Readers, Translation, Young Adult Readers
How helpful to find a "For New Readers"-summary on the Table of Contents page! And it's so thorough that if you pick up volume 2 (or any after) before volume 1, you can still enjoy this touching series about the trials and travails of early...
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Philip Hoose
08 Mar, by in Biography, Black/African American, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers
Winner of the 2009 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, Philip Hoose's inspiring title brings much-needed focus on a brave 15-year-old girl who decided, "You just have to take a stand and say, 'This is not right.'" In March 1955, nine months before Rosa...
The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service (vol. 10) by Eiji Otsuka, art by Housui Yamazaki, translated by Toshifumi Yoshida, edited by Carl Gustav Horn
07 Mar, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Translation
It's true, it's true once again ...
20th Century Boys (vol. 07) by Naoki Urasawa, with the cooperation of Takashi Nagasaki, English adaptation by Akemi Wegmüller
06 Mar, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese American, Translation, Young Adult Readers
Even as he is pulling his body – mid-escape! – out of the tiny hole that will release him from the infamous Umihotaru Prison, manga artist Kakuta momentarily gets distracted: "Whenever I run into anything that would make good material for a manga, I get totally absorbed"...
Author Interview: Ruthanne Lum McCunn [in Bookslut]
01 Mar, by in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Children/Picture Books, Chinese American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Hong Kongese, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers
Through the decades, Ruthanne Lum McCunn has built a lauded career giving voice to spirited, groundbreaking heroes of Asian descent. Growing up in a large, extended family in Hong Kong, McCunn, who is half Chinese and half Scottish American, was surrounded by strong, independent women...
Kissing the Mask: Beauty, Understatement and Femininity in Japanese Noh Theater, with Some Thoughts on Muses (Especially Helga Testorf), Transgender Women, Kabuki Goddesses, Porn Queens, Poets, Housewives, Makeup Artists, Geishas, Valkyries and Venus Figurines by William T. Vollmann [in Library Journal]
01 Mar, by in Adult Readers, Japanese, Memoir, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Repost
Vollmann (Imperial; Europe Central), who has tackled an astonishing array of subjects in fiction and nonfiction, here explores female beauty – its creation and consumption– with a spotlight on highly stylized traditional Japanese Noh theater. Because male actors wearing strictly codified masks perform all Noh roles, men,...
The Can Man by Laura E. Williams, illustrated by Craig Orback
28 Feb, by in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Korean American, Nonethnic-specific
In today's tough times filled with unemployment woes and economic downturns, The Can Man is all too real a story. Once a neighbor with a job – and a real name, Mr. Peters – the homeless man everyone just calls The Can Man wanders the...
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
27 Feb, by in Adult Readers, African, Audio, Fiction, Young Adult Readers
Heartbreak and hope are two words that define this 1948 classic by one of South Africa's most important writers. I picked it up recently because it's on our daughter's middle school reading list and while I vaguely remembered some of the plot, I realized I...
Watch This Space: Designing, Defending and Sharing Public Spaces by Hadley Dyer, illustrated by Marc Ngui
26 Feb, by in Canadian, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers
Coming from a family of urban planners and architects (Pops was head of urban planning graduate department at major university, baby bro is mega-award winning architect and professor at Harvard's GSD, middle bro used to make all his ex-girlfriend's architecture models when he got tired...
Amelia to Zora: Twenty-Six Women Who Changed the World by Cynthia Chin-Lee, illustrated by Megan Halsey and Sean Addy
25 Feb, by in Biography, Children/Picture Books, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction
The girl power companion to Akira to Zoltán: Twenty-Six Men Who Changed the World celebrates the accomplishments of 26 admirable, brave, cheeky women from all over the world who refused to ever take 'no' for an answer and made their own herstory along the way! Just...
A Taste of Honey: Stories by Jabari Asim
24 Feb, by in Adult Readers, Black/African American, Short Stories
I have old emails in my inbox from Jabari Asim, when he used to be a books editor at The Washington Post. I did a couple of book reviews for him, and pitched a few more ...
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