A Wright & Wong Mystery: The Case of the Prank that Stank (vol. 1) and The Case of the Nana-Napper (vol. 2) by Laura J. Burns and Melinda Metz [in AsianWeek]
26 May, by in Chinese American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Repost
Confession time: I was ready to hate these – those names, for heaven’s sake! But how entertaining – and empowering – to have a hapa Chinese American girl, Agatha Wong, and her...
Local Bay Area author recounts the inspiring life stories of 21 South Asian American women scattered around the country.
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A loving tribute, memoir-style, to the author’s father, a South Vietnamese pilot shot down during the Vietnam War and assumed dead. Pham and his mother begin a new life in the United...
This recently married interracial academic couple (thinking ahead to the experiences of their future children) present 10 thoughtful, resonating, autobiographical essays from diverse multiracial voices.
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A long-overdue first biography of the life of extraordinary activist Yuri Kochiyama. Major plus: It’s extensively researched by a fellow activist.
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Put away the car keys and get out the chopping chopping board. Often referred to as “the national food of England,” (colonial history aside) this is curry in a hurry...
Who needs McMansions when you can make even the smallest spaces look THIS fabulous and inviting?
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Perfect beach read: A father arrives in NYC to visit his estranged daughter and stumbles onto a murder for which his daughter is arrested as the prime suspect. Little by little, he must not...
No woman should be without this book. And if you already have the original, go out and get this latest 35th anniversary edition – it’s got some 50% new and revised material...
Personal favorite of the month – and favorite of many others as it won the 
Thirteen leftover travelers from a 323-passenger cancelled flight to Tokyo are left stranded overnight at the airport. They pass the time by each sharing a story – haunting, surprising, delicious, tales that span time...
The Patiently Tenacious Paula Yoo
When Paula Yoo got her first official rejection from a publisher, she ripped up the letter and threw a bona fide temper tantrum. She...
First reaction: WOW! Second reaction: Read it! The story revolves around the Harmony Silk Factory, a textiles shop in rural Malaysia run by Johnny Lim, part crook, part untouchable legend.
Three narrators...
Su-Jen becomes “Annie” when she immigrates to Canada at age 6 with her mother. Her father has set up a Chinese restaurant, and in the small Ontario town...
Confession: I’m an utter Ishiguro groupie. His latest novel makes me only more obsessed, even as it completely creeps me out. Hailsham (halcyon? sham? ) is the English countryside boarding...
Ooh, what a fabulous find! An incredibly unique compilation of things Indian, designed and made in a globalized modern India, from plastic cups to electric lights to candy boxes to telephones to even specialty...
From the author of the acclaimed two-part graphic autobiography, Persepolis, comes an outrageously entertaining afternoon of stories shared amid close women relatives and friends as they reveal the poignant, subversive, sometimes hilarious details of their most...
One child escapes, the other is left behind: In this continuation of the bestseller, 
Vicenza, 14, is F.O.P. – fresh off the plane – from the Philippines where she was undoubtedly the belle of ball. Now a financially challenged immigrant in San Francisco who’s...
