The Sculptor by Scott McCloud
04 Sep, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers
Oh, holy moly ...
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The Beast in My Belly by Grzegorz Kasdepke, illustrated by Tomek Kozłowski, translated by Agnes Monod-Gayraud
03 Sep, by in Children/Picture Books, European, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Translation
You know those days you forget to eat because you're running around here and there, and your belly LOUDLY (usually at inopportune moments) reminds you to "FEEEEEED MEEEE!!!"? Those grumbles and rumbles DO sound just like a hidden beast! If you're an inquisitive kid who hasn't...
A Year Without Mom by Dasha Tolstikova
02 Sep, by in Memoir, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Russian, Russian American, Young Adult Readers
Dasha is 12. She lives in a four-room apartment in Moscow with her mother and her grandparents. Her father lives in Los Angeles. She would like a cat, but she's too allergic. One night, she overhears her grandmother assuring her mother: "She will be fine. We...
The Little Tree by Muon Van, illustrated by JoAnn Adinolfi
01 Sep, by in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, South Asian American, Vietnamese American
Somewhere in an old forest, a little tree grows. But the forest is shrinking, the rains shower less often, and the little tree knows that her precious seed cannot flourish there. With the help of a brown bird who has flown far into the blue skies, she sends...
China Rich Girlfriend [Crazy Rich Asians 2] by Kevin Kwan
31 Aug, by in Adult Readers, Audio, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Hong Kongese, Singaporean, Singaporean American, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American
Summer is waning way too quickly, but you still have a final week left to indulge in frothy reads: the over-the-top excesses of Singaporean Manhattanite Kevin Kwan’s novels might be just what you've been looking for as Labor Day looms. If you haven't yet relished Kwan's debut,...
Wandering Son (vol. 8) by Shimura Takako, translated by Matt Thorn
28 Aug, by in Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Middle Grade Readers, Translation, Young Adult Readers
Adolescence is difficult enough to navigate, but throw in a few gender-bender issues and you've got multiple challenges earlier generations probably didn't (wouldn't? couldn't?) openly face. With all manner of identity awareness growing worldwide, Shimura Takako’s award-winning, internationally lauded manga series gently and insightfully reflects the gender spectrum on...
Dance of the Banished by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
26 Aug, by in Adult Readers, Canadian, Central Asian, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Turkish, Young Adult Readers
The year is 1913. Zeynep and Ali are teenage lovers in Anatolia (once Asia Minor, now modern Turkey) who part with a lingering sense of bitterness: Ali's impending departure breaks their promise of escaping their village together. Feeling betrayed, Zeynep turns away: "I refuse to be your...
Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
25 Aug, by in Absolute Favorites, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers
Allow me to dispel any notions that the dragons within are why I'm insisting this is one of my Absolute Favorites ever. Plenty of other reasons make Nimona an irresistible delight: allow me to count at least the top-10 ways ...
what did you eat yesterday? (vol. 9) by Fumi Yoshinaga, translated by Jocelyne Allen
21 Aug, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Translation, Young Adult Readers
Salmon meunière, acqua pazza, mizuna and onion salad, yellowtail teriyaki ...
The Investigation by J.M. Lee, translated by Chi-Young Kim [in Library Journal]
20 Aug, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Repost, Translation
*STARRED REVIEW Watanabe Yuichi sits behind bars in Japan’s infamous Fukuoka Prison. After World War II, the former “soldier-guard” is now an incarcerated “low-level war criminal” under U.S. control. His written confession, which highlights two people — “one prisoner and one guard; one poet and one...
The Cartographer of No Man’s Land by P.S. Duffy + Author Interview [Bloom]
19 Aug, by in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Canadian, European, Fiction, Repost
Freshly back from the Jersey Shore, debut novelist P.S. Duffy talks about writing her first book at age 10 although she didn’t publish her first novel until she was 65, her inability to ever return to her birth country of China, and how a stranger’s...
The Cartographer of No Man’s Land by P.S. Duffy + Author Profile [Bloom]
17 Aug, by in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Canadian, European, Fiction
“Define moral certainty”: The Great War in P.S. Duffy’s The Cartographer of No Man’s Land “Moral certainty.” “Righteous anger.” “God’s retribution.” The Great War implodes humanity in “No Man’s Land – a cratered landscape of ruin” in P.S. Duffy’s first novel. Published in October 2013 when Duffy was 65, The...
Nanjing: The Burning City by Ethan Young
14 Aug, by in Adult Readers, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Young Adult Readers
The late Iris Chang almost single-handedly taught the western world about the horrors of the Nanking Massacre in her 1997 The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II. Over six weeks that began with the Imperial Japanese Army's capture of China's then-capital city of...
Ally-Saurus & the First Day of School by Richard Torrey
13 Aug, by in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific
The new school year has apparently already begun in certain parts of the country, including Hawai'i (which started in July!), parts of Alabama and Indiana, too. I'm sure other states, too, have begun to herd the masses back to classrooms, with the rest of the...
Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan
12 Aug, by in Audio, Fiction, Latina/o/x, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers
For the most magnificent experience, choose to go aural with a pitch-perfect quartet to narrate the four distinct stories that make up this stupendous new novel from award-winning Pam Muñoz Ryan. Then – in another reason to visit your local library often – make sure to at least...
When the Moon Is Low by Nadia Hashimi
11 Aug, by in Adult Readers, Afghan, Afghan American, Audio, Fiction
Told in two distinct narratives by a mother and her eldest son, When the Moon Is Low follows an Afghan family's desperate journey through Turkey, Greece, Italy, and beyond, in search of safety and peace. [If you choose to go aural, Sneha Mathan (again, as always) is an ideal...
