Asian American X: An Intersection of 21st Century Asian American Voices edited by Arar Han and John Hsu [in AsianWeek]
08 Oct, by in Adult Readers, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost, Young Adult Readers
The latest in the exploration of Asian American identity by young voices. “How do we – that is, Asian Americans of our generation – understand our individual and collective identities?” ask...
Okay, call me a terribly old fuddy-duddy, but I just don’t get the lure of reading about the sex lives of misdirected, apathetic teenagers. I know there’s an audience out there because Doll is...
Oooh, this one would make a sweeping epic film for sure – Bollywood’s even got a starring role already! An innocent underage girl is seduced by a smoothtalking Bollywood star and gives birth to...
Don’t be put off by the tacky cover with the bare chest of a necklaced young man. The story within, with all its rawness and shock, is hard to put down. Five Dragons, an...
An engaging memoir by the adopted son of a famed Vietnamese doctor and spiritual master. Growing up in a country devastated by war, the mischievous son eventually learns...
Two Korean American twin sisters – one scarred from a tragic childhood accident, and the other untouched – have become estranged in adulthood. Now in their late 20s, they find themselves traveling...
In mid-15th-century Japan, Koji, half of a set of identical twins, has the chance to rise above his social status as a farmer’s son and become the apprentice to a revered dye maker. But...
Okay, so I've been known to get on a soapbox more often than not about inauthentic voices usurping other people's identities, i.e. white men writing as Asian women, especially sets me off – oh,...
Set in early 19th-century Korea, The Firekeeper’s Son is the very first picture book for Newbery Award-winner 
It starts out interestingly – although predictably – enough with a Chinese great-grandmother whose Gold Mountain husband returns with great riches, a grandmother who marries down but is saved from the Cultural Revolution by...
Lyrical collection of semi-autobiographical short stories by one of Asia's most famous authors. The title story is a heartbreaking memory piece of a boy's first years that captures through young,...
Min's second historical novel reinvents the life of Tzu Hsi, China's last empress. Although positioned in the collective Chinese memory as an evil, ruthless ruler, the Empress Orchid in Min's world is a strong,...
An entertaining coming-of-age novel-of-sorts about 20-year-old Yurika Song who is half-Japanese and half-Korean, who arrives from Japan to work for a summer at her Korean uncle's store in New York...
Miyo, raised by her indulgent father after her mother’s death, is shocked to discover her father’s secret life when he passes away. She travels to Japan, to meet a half-sister...
What’s wrong with this picture? An Australian journalist spends two years living in Tokyo and writes her first novel, which the PR materials refer to as “an intoxicating...
Behind the Mountains by Edwidge Danticat
Flight to Freedom by Ana Veciana-Suarez
Finding My Hat by John Son
The Stone Goddess by Minfong Ho
With the exception of the Native Americans—and some may still argue that they walked over the...
A family saga, set in Meiji Japan of the 1880s to the end of World War II, that weaves together the country’s tumultuous history with the story of...
An anthology of ‘autobiographies as activisms’ by gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and self-identified ‘queer’ Asian Pacific Americans, Restoried Selves also provides young gay APAs a tool for empowerment and finding community.
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The latest in the 
Based on the experiences of the author’s great-grandmother-in-law in Japan, Seam is a touching tale about a young girl named Michi who is apprenticed to the House of Mistress Shinyo, once renowned for creating...