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In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin [in Bloomsbury Review]

09 Feb, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Pakistani, Pakistani American, Repost, Short Stories, South Asian, South Asian American

What can I say? This debut collection is a gift. In eight intertwined stories using spare, perfectly measured language, hapa Pakistani American Daniyal Mueenuddin captures the lives of the haves and have-nots – money, position, power – with both precision and grace. Each of the collection's characters...

Absolutely Maybe by Lisa Yee [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Feb, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Seventeen-year-old Maybelline Mary Katherine Mary Ann Chestnut, aka "Maybe," escapes the clutches of her slimy stepfather-to-be, for whom her ex-beauty queen alcoholic mother insists she'll walk down the aisle a seventh time. Maybe decides it's high time to go find her real father, the one...

Bloodvine: A Novel by Aris Janigian

30 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Armenian American, Fiction

Two half-brothers, Abe and Andy, the American descendants of Armenian refugees whose families have escaped the Armenian Genocide, have led very different lives in California's fertile Central Valley. Abe, the eldest, loses his father and is forced to take on adult responsibilities far too early by...

In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar

15 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Arab, Audio, British, Fiction

In 1979, 9-year-old Suleiman already lives a fractured existence in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, controlled by Qaddafi and the ever-present threat of his secret police. While his father is often away on some unknown business, young Suleiman is left behind to take care of...

The Snow Day by Komako Sakai

01 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Japanese, Nonethnic-specific, Translation

Told with evocative, gentle pictures, The Snow Day opens with a young bunny who wakes up to a snow day – which means no kindergarten! Afraid that her little one might catch cold, the Mommy bunny asks him to wait until the snow stops. But...

Tan to Tamarind: Poems about the Color Brown by Malathi Michelle Iyengar, illustrated by Jamel Akib [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Black/African American, Children/Picture Books, Latina/o/x, Native American/First Nations/Indigenous Peoples, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Poetry, Repost, South Asian American

A joyful celebration of all sorts of brown-tinted skin colors, reflected in the tan of a spicy masala chai to the cocoa of a frothy hot chocolate to the ochre of  a bridal mehendi hand design to the coffee brown of café con leche to the adobe...

Auntie Tiger by Laurence Yep, illustrated by Insu Lee

01 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction

When two bickering sisters are left alone by their mother, she reminds Big Sister she must take care of Little Sister and Little Sister must listen to Big Sister. No sooner does she leave when Auntie Tiger knocks on the door. When the sisters don't...

Lucky New Year by Mary Man-Kong, illustrated by Chi Chung

09 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction

Lenny and Lili get ready to celebrate the Chinese New Year with their family, clearing out last year's dirt and welcoming the sweetness of the new. They'll have long noodles for long...

Little Rock Nine by Marshall Poe, illustrated by Ellen Lindner [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Black/African American, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

In graphic novel format just right for younger readers, Little Rock Nine deftly captures one of the most important moments in U.S. history when nine brave African American teens integrated all-white Central High School in...

Steer Toward Rock by Fae Myenne Ng [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost

Some 15 years after her award-wining literary debut with her bestselling novel, Bone, Ng finally returns with a gorgeous, yet heartbreaking story of unrequited love in 1960s San Francisco. Jack Moon Szeto arrives as...

Evening Is the Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Malaysian, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American, Southeast Asian, Young Adult Readers

The wealthy Rajesekharan family of Ipoh, Malaysia is suddenly in shambles. Chellam, one of the family servants, has been mysteriously dismissed and leaves in utter disgrace. The bitter, difficult family matriarch is dead. Her son is...

Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire by David Mura [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese American, Repost

Already an established nonfiction writer and poet, David Mura presents his debut novel, about a not-so-young Japanese American self-proclaimed itinerant historian who must delve into his own family's past – populated by both a...

A Good Indian Wife by Anne Cherian [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American

Neel is a handsome young doctor arriving at the family home in India to visit his ill grandfather. Back in his chosen home of San Francisco, he's got a gorgeous white girlfriend and his anesthesiologist career...

The Burma Chronicles by Guy Delisle, translated by Helge Dascher [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Canadian, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Memoir, Myanmarese (Burmese), Nonfiction, Repost, Southeast Asian, Translation

With amazingly effective simplicity, artist Guy Delisle takes you to Burma through an ex-pat’s perspective. He arrives with his wife, a Médecins San Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) aid worker, shortly after the devastating...

The White Nights of Ramadan by Maha Addasi, illustrated by Ned Gannon [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Arab American, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Repost

A Muslim family prepares for the fasting holiday of the month of Ramadan. Noor and her two brothers especially look forward to Girgian, a three-day festival that marks the half-way point of the holy month....

Grandfather’s Story Cloth by Linda Gerdner and Sarah Langford, illustrated by Stuart Loughridge [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Bilingual, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Hmong, Hmong American, Repost

Chersheng, a young Hmong American boy, feels helpless and frustrated as his Alzheimer’s-challenged grandfather begins to forget more and more. His mother shows him his grandfather's story cloth, a traditional Hmong art form that captures...

Bird by Zetta Elliot, illustrated by Shadra Strickland [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Black/African American, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Repost

An artistically gifted young boy realizes too early in his short life that fixing what he doesn't like in his pictures is much easier than trying to change what he doesn't understand about real life. He...

Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things by Lenore Look, illustrated by LeUyen Pham [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Chinese American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Repost

When Alvin Ho gets scared, he can’t seem to talk ...

Alicia Afterimage by Lulu Delacre [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Memoir, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

A mourning mother remembers the brief life of her vibrant 16-year-old daughter who was tragically killed in a car crash. She gathers the voices of her daughter’s friends and schoolmates through snippets of shared memories to...

I Wanna Be Your Shoebox by Cristina García [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Cuban American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Eighth-grader Yumi Ruíz-Hirsch, a Japanese/Cuban/Jewish American hapa, has a life as complicated as her heritage. Her no-nonsense mother's got a new boyfriend. Her rock-'n-roll songwriter father hasn't outgrown adolescence. Her friends all seem to be going...