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 in Adult Readers, Korean American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost
A 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,...
At 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...
Jeanne 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...
A 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...
A 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...
The 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....
A 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,...
A 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...
Two 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...
A 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...
The 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...
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Laurence 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...
Hisaye 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...
Gus 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/"...
Gish 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...