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Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book by Maxine Hong Kingston [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

02 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost

Tripmaster MonkeyKingston’s first novel about the often comic mishaps and adventures of Wittman Ah Sing, who is one year out of Berkeley, a slacker before his time. Set in the 1960s, Wittman’s dream is to...

Her Wild American Self by M. Evelina Galang [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

02 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Filipina/o American, Repost, Short Stories

Her Wild American SelfA collection of short stories centered on the experiences of Filipina American women of various ages, different lifestyles, changing goals, and private longings – each in search of her own...

Arranged Marriage: Stories by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

02 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Indian American, Repost, Short Stories, South Asian American

Arranged MarriageA collection of 11 short stories about young Indian and Indian American women, some married, some single, in various stages of claiming independence from their well-meaning but suffocating families and their oppressive patriarchal heritage....

Frontiers of Love by Diana Chang [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

02 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Repost

Frontiers of LoveThe story of a group of young, idealistic friends in Japanese-occupied Shanghai in 1945. Caught between an ancient culture overwhelmed by Western colonialism, each of the friends must try and find his...

Songs My Mother Taught Me: Stories, Plays, and Memoir by Wakako Yamauchi [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

02 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Drama/Theater, Fiction, Japanese American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Short Stories

Songs My Mother Taught MeA rich collection of stories, plays, and memoir that span over 35 years by one of the pioneer voices of Asian America. Yamauchi is best known for her...

Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories by Hisaye Yamamoto [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

02 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese American, Repost, Short Stories

Seventeen SyllablesA collection of 15 short stories from Yamamoto’s almost half-century-long writing career. Although the stories cover diverse subject matter, some of Yamamoto’s recurring themes including multicultural and multiethnic interaction, multigenerational conflicts and difficulties that...

Baba: A Return to China Upon My Father’s Shoulders by Belle Yang [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

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

BabaThe author returns to her ancestral homeland, guided by the stories her father – her "Baba" – has told her. There she begins a personal odyssey through northern China of the 1930s and ‘40s, following the...

Cultural Revolution by Norman Wong [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

02 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction, Hawaiian, Repost, Short Stories

Cultural Revolution.WongA collection of interrelated short stories that begins in 1953 Macao, where a sickly Wei lives with his overprotective grandmother and ineffective father. Wei eventually emigrates to Honolulu, gets married, and has two children,...

Talking to the Dead by Sylvia Watanabe [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

02 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Hawaiian, Japanese American, Repost, Short Stories

Talking to the DeadA first collection of lyrical short stories, set in the Hawaiian Islands, about such diverse characters as a female Chinese Fred Astaire, a grandmother who makes quilts of stolen pieces...

A Little Too Much Is Enough by Kathleen Tyau [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

02 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction, Hawaiian, Repost

Little Too Much Is EnoughMahi Wong grows up in post-World War II Hawai'i, surrounded by a large and complicated family of parents, siblings, and endless uncles and aunties. She is immersed in...

The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

02 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost

Hundred Secret SensesAt age 6, Olivia meets for the first time, her adult half-sister Kwan, just arrived from China. Kwan shares with a disbelieving Olivia her stories of the Yin people – people not...

The Loom and Other Stories by R.A. Sasaki [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

02 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese American, Repost, Short Stories

Loom and Other StoriesNine interrelated stories make up this debut collection, mostly about the San Francisco-based Terasaki family, living with the legacy of the Japanese American internment and the devastation of World War...

A Small Obligation and Other Stories of Hilo by Susan Nunes [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

02 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Hawaiian, Japanese American, Repost, Short Stories

Small ObligationA collection of interrelated stories about young Amy Freitas and her extended family which is Japanese on her mother’s side and Portuguese on her father’s side, as well as some of the other residents...

The Middleman and Other Stories by Bharati Mukherjee [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

02 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Indian American, Repost, Short Stories, South Asian American

Middleman and Other StoriesThe acclaimed winner of the 1988 National Book Critics Circle Award, Mukherjee's collection features displaced, diverse Americans, from a troubled Vietnam vet to an Iraqi Jew from Queens...

Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

02 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Indian American, Repost, South Asian American

JasmineBorn Jyoti, meaning "light," in a small Indian village, she is renamed Jasmine by her husband. Suddenly widowed at 17, Jasmine escapes to America where she begins an odyssey through the country, eventually landing in Iowa...

Wife by Bharati Mukherjee [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

02 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Indian American, Repost, South Asian American

WifeYoung, naive Dimple Dasgupta marries an engineer bound for the U.S. and embarks on a new American adventure. But her expectations – of being married, of being a dutiful wife, of living a glamorous new life...

The Big Aiiieeeee: An Anthology of Chinese American and Japanese American Literature edited by Jeffery Paul Chan, Frank Chin, Lawson Fusao Inada, and Shawn Wong [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

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

Big AiiieeeeeA follow-up to the seminal Aiiieeeee!, this anthology highlights over a century of writing by Asian Americans, from the revealing 1875 An English-Chinese Phrase Book, used by the first generation...

Making Waves: An Anthology of Writings By and About Asian American Women edited by Asian Women United of California [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

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

The first compilation since the early 1970s of primarily unpublished works by and about Asian American women, Making Waves brings together autobiographical writings, short stories, poetry, essays, and photography by and about Asian American...

The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women’s Anthology edited by Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Mayumi Tsutakawa, and Margarita Donnelly [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

01 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Poetry, Repost, Short Stories

Forbidden StitchA rich collection of poetry, short stories, visual art, and reviews which together Review: "Asian American Titles," What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature, Gale Research, 1997 Readers: Adult Published: 1989...

Sister Stew: Fiction and Poetry by Women edited by Juliet S. Kono and Cathy Song [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

01 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Hawaiian, Poetry, Repost, Short Stories

Sister StewA colorful collection of writings by women of various backgrounds, the majority of whom are either Hawaiian by birth or by adopted residency. Review: "Asian American Titles," What Do I Read Next? Multicultural...

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