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BookDragon Coming-of-age Tag

Still Life With Rice: A Young American Woman Discovers the Life and Legacy of Her Korean Grandmother by Helie Lee [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

01 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Korean American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost

Still Life with RiceA young Korean American woman, trying to come to terms with her strong ethnic heritage, travels to Korea for the first time. There she discovers her grandmother’s legacy of survival,...

Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid by Evelyn Lau [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

01 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

RunawayAt 14, Evelyn Lau was an honors student, the dutiful daughter of a strict, traditional Chinese family. Lau’s parents cannot understand her obsession to become a writer; being published in literary magazines and winning awards only...

Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

01 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Japanese American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Farewell to ManzanarJeanne Wakatsuki was just 7 years old when Pearl Harbor was bombed. Within months, her father was taken away by the U.S. government. Soon thereafter, the rest of the Wakatsuki family was...

China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

01 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

China MenA history made up of myth and memory of generations of Chinese American men: from the grandfather who worked on the transcontinental railroad to a father who ran a laundry and danced like Fred...

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Childhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

01 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Woman WarriorA young girl grows up in the San Francisco Bay Area divided amidst the stories and myths of her parents’ faraway past in China and her own experiences as an immigrant’s daughter coming of...

America Is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

01 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Filipina/o American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Southeast Asian American, Young Adult Readers

America Is in the HeartThe autobiography of writer and poet Carlos Bulosan, from his boyhood in the Philippines, to his arrival in America, to the difficulties he faced as a migrant laborer....

Growing Up Asian American edited by Maria Hong [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

01 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Memoir, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost, Short Stories, Young Adult Readers

Growing Up Asian AmericanA diverse collection of essays, excerpts, and short stories about growing up in the U.S., all authored by Americans of Asian descent that address such global issues as parent-child relationships,...

Asian Americans: Oral Histories of First to Fourth Generation Americans from China, the Philippines, Japan, India, the Pacific Islands, Vietnam and Cambodia edited by Joann Faung Jean Lee [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

01 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Asian Americans.Oral HistoriesA collection of oral histories from first- to fourth-generation Asian Americans of Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Indian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Island ancestry. Asian Americans of diverse backgrounds reflect on their American...

Paper Angels and Bitter Cane by Genny Lim [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

01 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Drama/Theater, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Paper AngelsTwo important plays on the Asian American experience: Paper Angels, a groundbreaking one-act play about Chinese immigrants detained on the West Coast immigration center, Angel Island, debuted in 1980 and was produced by American...

FOB and Other Plays by David Henry Hwang [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

01 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Drama/Theater, Repost

FOBA collection of six plays by groundbreaking Asian American playwright, David Henry Hwang, including his much-produced contemporary classic, FOB, the gender-bender Broadway hit, M. Butterfly, and the Philip Glass collaboration, 1000 Airplanes on the Roof. Hwang was...

Between Worlds: Contemporary Asian-American Play edited by Misha Berson [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

01 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Drama/Theater, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Between WorldsThe first published anthology of plays by Asian American writers features six diverse plays: Nuit Blanche: A Select View of Earthlings by Ping Chong, The Wash by Philip Kan Gotanda, Tenement Lover: no palm...

Baba: A Return to China Upon My Father’s Shoulders by Belle Yang + Author Profile [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Chinese American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Taiwanese American, Young Adult Readers

BabaBelle Lettres For Belle Yang, creating Baba: A Return to China Upon My Father’s Shoulders, a lyrical new book filled with impressive pictures and musical prose, was somewhat akin to a rescue...

Author Profile: Laurence Yep [in Notable Asian Americans]

01 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Author Interview/Profile, Children/Picture Books, Chinese American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Repost, Short Stories, Young Adult Readers

DragonwingsLaurence Yep is a multi-faceted writer. His best-known works include two children's books, Dragonwings and Dragon's Gate, both of which were named Newbery Honor books. His audiences include children and adults of all ages. Although he...

Author Profile: Hisaye Yamamoto [in Notable Asian Americans]

01 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Japanese American, Repost, Short Stories

Seventeen SyllablesHisaye Yamamoto began writing fiction at the age of 14 received her first acceptance from a literary magazine at 27. In between, "I got a whole slew of rejection slips," she recalled with a...

Author Profile: Gus Lee [in Notable Asian Americans]

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

China BoyGus Lee, one-time attorney, now full-time writer, began his first book in 1989 as a private memoir. "My daughter asked me to write a family journal and it turned out to be <a href="http://bookdragon.si.edu/1997/03/02/china-boy-by-gus-lee/"...

Author Profile: Gish Jen [in Notable Asian Americans]

01 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Typical AmericanGish Jen cites her husband, David O'Connor, as "the liberator" who helped her write again. Newly married after completing her master's degree in fine arts, Jen had put her writing aside to become, as...

Author Profile: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston [in Notable Asian Americans]

01 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Japanese American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Farewell to ManzanarOne day in 1971, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's nephew came to visit. He was taking a sociology course at the University of California at Berkeley and wanted to know more about the concentration...

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