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Dragon Springs Road by Janie Chang + Author Interview [in Bloom]

21 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Canadian, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Repost

Ever since she was a child, Janie Chang was steeped in family tales she inherited from her parents about the generations that came before. For decades, she remained the family’s repository until, at age 53, she presented the world with her debut novel, Three Souls,...

The Accusation by Bandi, translated by Deborah Smith [in Booklist]

15 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, North Korean, Repost, Short Stories, Translation

*STARRED REVIEW Initially published in South Korea in 2014, The Accusation continues to make international history as the first literary work smuggled out of repressive North Korea, now headed for shelves around the world. Bandi – whose pseudonym is derived from firefly, an obvious nod to...

The Glorious Heresies by Gloria McInerney [in Library Journal]

14 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, European, Fiction, Irish, Repost

This may be Lisa McInerney’s debut novel, but the author has had plenty of practice chronicling daily life in her lauded blog, "Arse End of Ireland." Arriving stateside, already impressively awarded (2016 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction), Heresies melds wrenching reality with bitter comedy, taking...

The Devourers by Indra Das [in Library Journal]

13 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American

Equal parts romance, fairy tale, horror, history, travelog, and treatise on the transformative power of storytelling, Indra Das’s debut combines a dual narrative about the developing relationship between two strangers with a fantastical tale set seemingly long ago. One December evening in Kolkata, Alok, a history...

Ladivine by Marie NDiaye, translated by Jordan Stump [in Library Journal]

10 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, European, Fiction, Repost, Translation

Race, class, and identity all loom large in Marie NDiaye's (Three Strong Women) latest superb title as generations of mothers and daughters attempt to deny and reclaim one another with onerous consequences. The original Ladivine immigrates to France from an unnamed country, cleaning houses to...

Olive Witch by Abeer Y. Hoque [in Christian Science Monitor]

09 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, African, Bangladeshi, Bangladeshi American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American

'Olive Witch' is the memoir of an outsider on a quest for belonging “bow echo,” the very first words of Abeer Y. Hoque’s raw, unblinking, urgent-in-these-times memoir, Olive Witch, is an easy-to-miss clue. Followed by a temperature (73°F) and what looks like a diary entry, the...

LaRose by Louise Erdrich [in Library Journal]

07 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Native American/First Nations/Indigenous Peoples, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW In rural North Dakota, Landreaux and Ravich are friends and neighbors, further bound by their wives who are half sisters. With a single gunshot, their lives change forever, when Landreaux aims at a buck at the edge of a field bordering both properties and...

Music of the Ghosts by Vaddey Ratner [in Library Journal]

06 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Cambodian, Cambodian American, Fiction, Repost, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American

After nearly a quarter-century spent in Minnesota, Teera returns to her native Cambodia, fulfilling her aunt's dying wish that part of her ashes be delivered home. Having witnessed, decades earlier, the decimation of the rest of her family, Teera is now completely alone. She seeks the...

Unbecoming by Jenny Downham [in School Library Journal]

03 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Audio, British, Fiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

*STARRED REVIEW Mary, Caroline, and Katie are three very different generations in the same family; finding themselves unexpectedly under the same roof forces them to confront a complicated past that has kept them estranged for decades. Mary is the grandmother, newly widowed, fighting the dementia that...

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid [in Library Journal]

02 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, British Asian, Fiction, Pakistani, Pakistani American, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American

*STARRED REVIEW "We are all migrants through time," observes Man Booker Prize short-lister Mohsin Hamid (The Reluctant Fundamentalist). The impulses driving such movement, especially when rooted in violent conflict, is at the core of Hamid's exceptional fourth novel. In an unnamed city (not unlike the author's native...

The Lotterys Plus One by Emma Donoghue, illustrated by Caroline Hadilaksono [in Shelf Awareness]

01 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Canadian, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Repost

Sixteen years ago, a pregnant woman walking the hospital halls found a lottery ticket on the floor. The ticket proved quite the winner, enabling the new mother – and her three co-parents – to "buy a big house to fill with lots more kids, and...

14 Cows for America by Carmen Agra Deedy in collaboration with Wilson Kimeli Naiyomah, illustrated by Thomas Gonzalez

31 Jan, by SIBookDragon in African, Black/African American, Children/Picture Books, Cuban American, Nonfiction

Kimeli, a young Maasai man, returns to his village in Kenya after being away for a long time with “one story [that] has burned a hole in his heart.” He remembers the “[b]uildings so tall they can touch the sky,” he saw the “[f]ires so hot...

The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap by Gish Jen [in Booklist]

30 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese, Chinese American, Nonfiction, Repost

Beloved novelist Gish Jen (World and Town, 2010) expands on the East-West cultural paradigm she applied to examining art and culture in her previous nonfiction work, Tiger Writing (2013), to see “what it can show us about the world.” As the U.S.-born child of Chinese immigrants,...

I Am Not a Number by Jenny Kay Dupuis and Kathy Kacer, illustrated by Gillian Newland

26 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Canadian, Children/Picture Books, Native American/First Nations/Indigenous Peoples, Nonfiction

From our northern neighbors comes the story of Irene Couchie Dupuis, co-author Dr. Jenny Kay Dupuis’s grandmother, who at 8 years old, was forcibly removed from her home by the Canadian government and sent to a faraway residential school with her two brothers. The strict nuns...

To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey [in Library Journal]

12 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Uncategorized

*STARRED REVIEW Walter Forrester, a self-described "stubborn old man" without living relatives, contacts Alaska museum curator Joshua Sloan with an offer to donate numerous effects of his great-uncle Lt. Col. Allen Forrester and Forrester's wife, Sophie. In 1885, Allen Forrester embarked on a formidable mission to chart...

The Mothers by Brit Bennet [in Library Journal]

11 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Black/African American, Fiction, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW The collective elder mothers of Upper Room Chapel open with a Greek chorus-esque recitation about happenings affecting their congregation. At the center of the chatter is Nadia, 17, who had "earned a wild reputation" since her mother committed suicide six months earlier; the Upper Room...

The Problem with Forever by Jennifer L. Armentrout [in School Library Journal]

10 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Having survived too many violently nightmarish years in foster care, Mallory knows how lucky she is to finally have two unconditionally loving parents. After years of intensive therapy, she's ready to try something most teens expect to experience: her senior year of high school. Mallory's...

Human Acts by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith [in Library Journal]

09 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Repost, Translation

*STARRED REVIEW With Han Kang’s The Vegetarian awarded the 2016 Man Booker International Prize, her follow-up will garner extra scrutiny. Bottom line? This new work, again seamlessly translated by Deborah Smith, who also provides an indispensable contextual introduction, is even more stupendous. Han drops readers into a...

The Outliers [The Outliers Trilogy, Book 1] by Kimberly McCreight [in School Library Journal]

06 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Still reeling from her mother's sudden death, Wylie – already fighting debilitating anxiety – has become even more self-isolating. When her former best friend's mother shows up desperately seeking her daughter Cassie, Wylie doesn't confess that the two have barely seen each other since Cassie...

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