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Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice edited by Jael Silliman, Marlene Gerber Fried, Loretta Ross, and Elena R. Gutiérrez [in AsianWeek]

06 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Black/African American, Latina/o/x, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost

Undivided RightsFor women of color, the fight for civil rights includes equitable reproductive rights. Both coercive sterilization and invasive long-term birth-control technologies have historically undermined the reproductive rights of women of color. Such practices continue...

The Migrant’s Table: Meals and Memories in Bengali-American Households by Krishnendu Ray [in AsianWeek]

06 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Indian American, Nonfiction, Repost, South Asian American

Migrant's TableA hybrid if I ever saw one: At the heart of the book is a sociological look at how food and ethnicity intersect in the immigrant world (think how our APA holiday tables might...

The Best of Tofu by Junko Takagi, translated by Kazuhiko Nagai and Karen Sandness [in AsianWeek]

06 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Japanese, Nonfiction, Repost, Translation

Best of TofuMmmm, mmmm, good – the pictures alone will make you hungry. Who knew tofu could be toothsome on the page? You can even learn how to make tofu from scratch. After all...

Under Her Skin: How Girls Experience Race in America edited by Pooja Makhijani [in AsianWeek]

06 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Black/African American, Latina/o/x, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Under Her SkinA collection to share with your daughter – your sister, your cousin, even your mother. Thoughtful and eye-opening, this collection by women from many backgrounds recalls childhood experiences on when and how...

Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems | versions by Robert Bly and Jane Hirschfield, afterword by John Stratton Hawley [in AsianWeek]

06 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Indian, Poetry, Repost, South Asian, Translation

MirabaiContemporary American poets Bly and Hirschfield present English versions of works by the legendary Mirabai. Born in India in 1498, Mirabai is one of the original independent women of history, eschewing social morés to live a...

The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film by Tom Mes and Jasper Sharp, foreword by Hideo Nakata [in AsianWeek]

06 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Japanese, Nonfiction, Repost

Midnight Eye GuideA worthy compendium to enhance the understanding and enjoyment of contemporary Japanese cinema, with authoritative profiles of 19 filmmakers, filmographies, and selected reviews. The final chapter includes a “New and Notable”-like section...

Magic Seeds: A Novel by V.S. Naipaul [in AsianWeek]

06 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, British Asian, Fiction, Indian, Indian African, Repost, South Asian

Magic SeedsNobel Prize-winner Naipaul continues Willie Chandran’s life story from Half a Life. After 18 years in Africa, Chandran is in Berlin with his more capable sister but ends up in India as...

Peacock Cries at the Three Gorges by Hong Ying, translated by Mark Smith and Henry Zhao [in AsianWeek]

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

Peacock Cries at the Three GorgesLiu, a genetic scientist, arrives to visit her husband, Li, at his job site at the famed (or should that be infamous?) Three Gorges Dam Project...

Big Breasts & Wide Hips: A Novel by Mo Yan, translated by Howard Goldblatt [in AsianWeek]

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

Big Breasts and Wide HipsFrom the author of Red Sorghum comes a monumental novel that follows 20th-century China through the lives of the eponymous woman and her nine children, none of them...

Blood and Soap: Stories by Linh Dinh [in AsianWeek]

06 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Repost, Short Stories, Vietnamese American

Blood and SoapWhile English is not the native tongue of Saigon-born Dinh, his mastery of his adopted language is undeniable. Throughout this most eclectic collection of shorts – some beyond short, including one-sentence stories...

The River Ki by Sawako Ariyoshi, translated by Mildred Tahara [in AsianWeek]

06 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese, Repost, Translation

River KiThrough three generations of strong, independent women, Ariyoshi captures and conveys the tumultuous period of Japan from the stratified, socially constrictive end of the 19th century to the modern postwar era of the 20th. Review:...

The Disinherited by Han Ong + Author Interview [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Filipina/o, Filipina/o American, Repost, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American

disinheritedGenius Han Ong: The Outsider American Han Ong, who made international headlines as one of the MacArthur Foundation’s elite Genius Grant recipients of 1997, refers to his second novel, The Disinherited, as his “imagined homecoming”...

The Tattooed Girl by Joyce Carol Oates + Author Interview [in American Theatre magazine]

01 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Drama/Theater, Fiction, Jewish, Nonethnic-specific, Repost

Tattooed GirlJoyce Carol Oates’ Scariest People: The world premiere of The Tattooed Girl at Theater J “People think I’m prolific,” laughs Joyce Carol Oates, “but actually I work long hours and I’m very patient and fastidious.”...

I, Doko: The Tale of a Basket by Ed Young [in AsianWeek]

03 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction, Nepali, Repost

I, DokoA haunting, lovingly illustrated story, told from the point of view of a basket that serves three generations of a Nepali family. As the basket's frail, aged owner is about to be left on...

Between Heaven and Earth: Bird Tales from Around the World by Howard Norman, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon [in AsianWeek]

03 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Chinese, Fiction, Repost, Short Stories, Sri Lankan American

Between Heaven and EarthA collection of five tales, starring different birds, including a quail tale from Sri Lanka about the power of prayer and a swan story from China about lost-and-found ancestors. Review: <a...

Moving Toward Balance: 8 Weeks of Yoga with Rodney Yee by Rodney Yee with Nina Zolotow, photographs by Michal Venera [in AsianWeek]

03 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Repost

Moving Toward BalancePerfect timing as the holiday season goes into high gear: What better way to survive the stress and mess than to strengthen the body and calm the mind with yoga? As a...

The Art of Aikido: Principles & Essential Techniques by Kisshomaru Ueshiba [in AsianWeek]

03 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Japanese, Nonfiction, Repost

Art of AikidoWritten by the son of Aikido’s founder, Morihei Ueshiba, this volume is part history, part philosophy, part how-to … not to mention a catalog of some great action shots of flying, flipping-over...

Naming Maya by Uma Krishnaswami [in AsianWeek]

03 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American

Naming MayaA touching, slim coming-of-age novel about young Maya who travels one summer to Chennai, India, with her mother. Both mother and daughter are still stinging from a year-old divorce. There in the folds of...

Goddess for Hire by Sonia Singh [in AsianWeek]

03 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Indian American, Repost, South Asian American

Goddess for HireMaya Mehra, 30 and still living with her parents, gets kidnapped at LAX where she’s gone to pick up her unknown prospective husband. When she comes to, she is told that she’s...

The Japan Journals: 1947-2004 by Donald Richie, edited by Leza Lowitz [in AsianWeek]

03 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Japanese, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost

Japan JournalsThe collected private writings of film and cultural historian Donald Richie, who is perhaps best known as Japan’s pre-eminent 20th-century American expat. Included in the multiple pages devoted to his almost-six-decade love affair with...

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