Maya Running by Anjali Banerjee [in AsianWeek]
25 Feb, by in Canadian Asian Pacific American, Fiction, Indian American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, South Asian American
As the only South Asian in her middle school, Maya knows all about being different in her tiny Canadian town. She doesn’t speak Bengali, she’s at that awkward stage of pimples and endless limbs,...
If you understand the word “otaku” (and if you don’t, you’ll have to read this to find out), then this book’s for you: the first insider’s guide in English to...
In this updated 25th-anniversary edition of how to read your personal horoscope, you’ll find a lot of “Uh-huh,” and “Oh, wow – that’s so true!” going on. Lau even cross-tabulates...
Everything you ever needed to know about celebrating the good life like a real Chinese American – from the New Year to dragon boats to weddings and even funerals. And just in...
An award-winning writer, activist, musician, and professor, Julian Lester uses his own personal story as an African American to engage young readers in exploring what makes each of us unique...
With all the endless shelves of parenting titles, why not tout one that champions Asian influences? One major diversion, however, from traditional discipline tactics attributed to Confucius: While...
A lively sourcebook filled with compelling essays that look at the Asian Pacific American experience through the experiences of APA youth – a group marked more by diversity than easy-to-define labels.
Review: <a...
Discovered over the last quarter-century in China and posited as the foundational text for early Taoism, Inward Training is composed of compact poetic verses written on silk and bamboo that were entombed for over...
WOW! A gorgeous photographic essay of the world’s second-largest economy that captures its ultimately high-tech contemporary achievements, sharply juxtaposed with striking images of a strongly traditional society of timeless beauty.
Review: 
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From the screenwriter of such award-winning films as Mississippi Masala and Salaam Bombay! comes a stunning portrait of a rapidly shrinking community, the Parsis who number just 100,000 today. Followers of Zoroastrianism, one of the world’s...
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Based on 15 years of experience as the faculty advisor to the Vietnamese Student Association at a San Jose, Calif., high school, Barry condenses his experiences to tell the story of a year in...
Clint Eastwood, Summer Love, and Cockfighting
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A 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...
While 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...
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The Philip Kan Gotanda Chronicles
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A welcoming, gentle manual of sorts for even the most overscheduled on how to let go of anger and fear to live a more peaceful, fulfilling life — not to...
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Review: <a href="http://bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/asianweek-2004-10-28-new-and-notable.pdf"...