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Long for This World by Sonya Chung [in Library Journal]

16 Feb, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Korean American, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW The title of Sonya Chung’s exquisite novel, Long for This World, seems to be missing a word: “not long for this world” would be the easy, expected phrase. But little is ‘easy’ or ‘expected’ in this multilayered story of two brothers – one Korean,...

KING: A Comics Biography | The Special Edition by Ho Che Anderson

12 Feb, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Biography, Black/African American, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

I thought I should mark Lincoln's birthday today with Ho Che Anderson's epic graphic biography of Martin Luther King, Jr., who gave his legendary "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963. Eighteen years in the making,...

Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don’t You Grow Weary by Elizabeth Partridge

22 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Black/African American, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction

Once upon a time not so long ago, Americans were willing to risk their very lives for the privilege to cast their votes. Since the 1970s, just over half of U.S. citizens eligible to vote have turned out for Presidential elections (with the exception of...

The Quest for the Missing Girl by Jiro Taniguchi, translated by Shizuka Shimoyama and Elizabeth Tiernan

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

Take notice: this is every parent's worst nightmare come true. Without warning, 15-year-old Megumi disappears, seemingly without a trace. Her mother has no idea why she might have left or where she might be ...

not simple by Natsume Ono, translated by Joe Yamazaki, English adaptation by Anne Ishii

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

First reaction: WOWOWOWOWOW! What a fabulous first manga for the new year. Indeed, nothing is simple about this all-in-one-volume story ...

The Disappeared by Kim Echlin

31 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Cambodian, Canadian, Fiction, Southeast Asian

One Halloween night when Anne Greves is 16, she goes with older friends to a jazz club and falls in love for the first time in her young life. Serey is an older man, already in his 20s, a musician, who has already lived too...

Wait Until Twilight: A Novel by Sang Pak

28 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean American, Nonethnic-specific

Samuel Polk is 16, athletic, has good friends, and lives in a small southern town in Georgia. He tells everyone he's gotten over his mother's sudden death a year ago. While his relationship with his father isn't the closest, they've managed to establish a daily...

A Million Shades of Grey by Cynthia Kadohata

25 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Japanese American, Middle Grade Readers, Southeast Asian, Vietnamese, Young Adult Readers

Cynthia Kadohata – who won the top American children's book honor, the Newbery Medal, in 2005 for her debut middle-grade title, Kira-Kira –returns with a heartbreaking story about a young Vietnamese boy and his special relationship with the elephant in his charge. High in the central highlands of war-torn...

Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms by Fumiyo Kouno, translated by Naoko Amemiya and Andy Nakatani, edited by Patrick Macias and Colin Turner

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

Slim and gorgeous, Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms, couldn't be more different from the 10-volume, powerfully resonating Barefoot Gen series in scope and style. But don't let its whimsical beauty fool you for a moment ...

Barefoot Gen: Breaking Down Borders (vol. 9) by Keiji Nakazawa, translated by Project Gen

14 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Memoir, Middle Grade Readers, Translation, Young Adult Readers

Hiroshima survivor Keiji Nakazawa's graphic testimony continues in the penultimate volume of the heart-wrenching Barefoot Gen series, finally available in an unabridged English translation of all 10 volumes from San Francisco's renegade publisher Last Gasp. Alone and newly homeless, Nakazawa's fictionalized stand-in, Gen Nakaoka, moves in with...

Publisher Profile: Madras Press [in Bookslut]

08 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Short Stories

A Quartet of Unsalable Gems: Madras Press Debuts Series One A modern eco-fable about an almost-royal swan and just-a-common-bluebird couple whose lives intersect with a miner and a logger who turn away from their destructive careers… a contemporary fairy tale about a witch with one heck...

Yellow Face by David Henry Hwang, foreword by Frank Rich

02 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Chinese American, Drama/Theater

Surely, I have never been part of a more raucous audience than when I saw David Henry Hwang's latest play, Yellow Face, at New York's Public Theater in December 2007. The man at the end of the row in front of us LITERALLY FELL OUT...

GoGo Monster by Taiyo Matsumoto, translated by Camellia Nieh

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

Yuki Tachibana (whose first name means 'snow,' and last name means 'standing flower') is not your average first-grader. He draws strange pictures on his desk that unnerve his other classmates. He can see things no one else can. He talks to the invisible Super Star,...

Short Girls by Bich Minh Nguyen

27 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Southeast Asian American, Vietnamese American

At first impression, the story is very familiar: two American-born sisters of Vietnamese American immigrants  – one the high-achieving 'good' daughter with her law degree, the other the 'lost' daughter with fast friends and temporary jobs that never last long. But in Bich Minh Nguyen's heart-string-pulling...

Mahtab’s Story by Libby Gleeson

25 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Afghan, Australian, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers

When 12-year-old Mahtab's father returns home with obvious signs of torture, and her grandfather is forever lost, her family knows it can no longer live in Taliban-controlled Herat, Afghanistan. Her best friend has already left without saying goodbye, hoping to find refuge somewhere in Iran....

Leaving Yesler by Peter Bacho + Author Interview

20 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Filipina/o American, Southeast Asian American, Young Adult Readers

On Old-Timers, Boxing, and Lots of Sex (mostly off the page ...

T4: A Novel by Ann Clare LeZotte

09 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in European, Fiction, Jewish, Middle Grade Readers, Poetry, Verse Novel/Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

In just over a hundred pages of sparse, haunting verse, LeZotte illuminates a part of the Holocaust tragedy that takes up little shelf space in libraries today: the organized mass murder of mentally ill and physically challenged people, as well as the massacre of European...

The New Sun by Taro Yashima

05 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Japanese, Japanese American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

What an amazing, unique, and LUCKY find! First published in 1943 by one of the oldest U.S. publishers, Henry Holt and Company, and in spite of excellent reviews plus a multi-year marketing campaign by both publisher and an early publicist who worked to get the...

In the City by the Sea by Kamila Shamsie

01 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Pakistani, South Asian

Kamila Shamsie's debut novel is now the same age as her first protagonist, 11-year-old Hasan, the only child of a lauded artist and a once powerful lawyer. The trio live surrounded by extended family and friends in 'the city by the sea' of Karachi, Pakistan....

The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak

28 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Armenian American, Audio, Fiction, Turkish

Even before this book hit U.S. shelves, French-born Turkish author Elif Shafak was charged with insulting "Turkishness" in violation of Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code because one of her characters refers to the large-scale massacre of Armenians that began in 1915 in Turkey as...

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