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Umma’s Table by Yeon-sik Hong, translated by Janet Hong [in Booklist]

25 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Korean, Repost, Translation

*STARRED REVIEW For artist Madang Bae, life is divided into two opposing spheres, “The world I’ve worked so hard to leave behind ...

Almond by Won-pyung Sohn, translated by Sandy Joosun Lee [in Booklist]

23 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Repost, Translation, Young Adult Readers

*STARRED REVIEW Novels featuring neurodiverse protagonists are claiming more space on both adult and children’s shelves. The most common underlying message encourages kindness and empathy, despite obvious, sometimes impenetrable, differences. In what might be the first novel to feature a protagonist with alexithymia – an inability...

Grandpa Grumps by Katrina Moore, illustrated by Xindi Yan [in Shelf Awareness]

20 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost

Despite Daisy's carefully prepared "Things to do with Yeh-yeh" list, her goal during the week of her grandfather's visit is something far more challenging: "I have to make him smile before he leaves!" In creating Daisy and her Grandpa Grumps, Katrina Moore (One Hug) explores multi-generational,...

The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai + Author Interview [in The Booklist Reader]

01 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Repost, Southeast Asian, Vietnamese

Filling a Lack of Voices from Inside Việt Nam: Talking with Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai Thousands of Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai’s devoted readers should have been meeting her live over these next few weeks to hear about The Mountains Sing, her first novel in English. But an unprecedented...

Friend by Nam-nyong Paek, translated by Immanuel Kim [in Booklist]

02 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, North Korean, Repost, Translation

*STARRED REVIEW As a Superior Court judge, among Jeong Jin Wu’s most difficult tasks is to resolve divorce petitions and face “the burden of having to deal with another family’s misery.” His latest case involves an opera celebrity and factory worker desperate to terminate their almost-10-year...

We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom, illustrated by Michaela Goade [in Shelf Awareness]

19 Feb, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Native American/First Nations/Indigenous Peoples, Repost

Flowing words by Carole Lindstrom and lush art by Michaela Goade appear in immaculate synchronicity on every page of We Are Water Protectors. A young girl, instructed by her wise Nokomis – grandmother – acts as the story's guide, creating a beckoning entry for even...

The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai [in Booklist]

18 Feb, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Repost, Southeast Asian, Vietnamese

A granddaughter and her grandmother take turns narrating: “If our stories survive, we will not die, even when our bodies are no longer here on this earth.” What emerges is the ominous history of 20th-century Việt Nam told through four generations of a single family. As...

Beside Myself by Sasha Marianna Salzmann, translated by Imogen Taylor [in Library Journal]

04 Feb, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, European, Fiction, Repost, Translation, Turkish

Be forewarned: identity, nationality, and gender are all fluid here – histories intertwine and conflict, narrators change and prove unreliable, and pronouns are a challenge throughout. “I don’t know where we’re going,” the first sentence reveals, setting up a story already fully in motion. Ali...

Searching for Sylvie Lee by Jean Kwok [in Booklist]

27 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Chinese American, European, Fiction, Repost

Just before Grandma died in Amsterdam, Sylvie temporarily rejoined the Tan family to say goodbye. Grandma had been living with the Tans: Ma’s cousin Helena, husband Willem, their son Lukas – for decades. For her first nine years, Sylvie, too, had been the Tans’ responsibility,...

The Library of Lost and Found by Phaedra Patrick [in Booklist]

25 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, British, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost

So you’re gonna find some conventional tropes here: mousy librarian, selfless sister/selfish sister, domineering father/submissive mother, free-spirited granny, mysterious guardian angel. But before your rolling eyeballs get stuck, two words on why you need to listen: Imogen Church! Perhaps best known for voicing clever thrillers...

The Prom: A Novel Based on the Hit Broadway Musical by Saundra Mitchell with Bob Martin, Chad Beguelin, and Matthew Sklar [in Booklist]

31 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Audio, Drama/Theater, Fiction, Latina/o/x, Repost, Young Adult Readers

*STARRED REVIEW Two star-crossed seniors just want to dance together at prom. Emma lives with her grandmother since her parents rejected her when she came out, but the bullying at school has never stopped. She and student council president Alyssa are in love, but Alyssa’s fear of...

Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett J. Krosoczka [in Booklist]

26 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Audio, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Memoir, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Young Adult Readers

*STARRED REVIEW Sure, the book is great. But the audio? It’s some sort of spectacular. In October 2018, bestselling Jarrett J. Krosoczka debuted his graphic memoir – about being raised by his grandparents when his single mother’s heroin addiction made her an unreliable parent; it was...

Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson [in Booklist]

19 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Black/African American, Fiction, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW National Book Award-winner Jacqueline Woodson (Another Brooklyn) exquisitely examines the (dis)connections of three generations of a Brooklyn family that is tenuously held together by Melody, whose coming-of-age ceremony is just beginning in her grandparents’ brownstone. Through 21 spare, dazzling chapters, Woodson reveals the past...

The Majesties by Tiffany Tsao [in Shelf Awareness]

17 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Australian, Fiction, Indonesian, Repost, Southeast Asian

Since comparisons to Kevin Kwan's Crazy Rich Asians seem unavoidable, here's what might be familiar: yes, crazy, rich, Asian characters populate Tiffany Tsao’s The Majesties. Differences, however, immediately overshadow superficial similarities, most obviously from the very first sentence: "When your sister murders three hundred people,...

How We Disappeared by Jing-Jing Lee [in Booklist]

09 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Repost, Singaporean

*STARRED REVIEW Singaporean born, Oxford-educated, Amsterdam-domiciled Jing-Jing Lee opens her expansive, extraordinary debut novel with a reclamatory dedication: “For all the grandmas (halmonies, lolas and amas) who told their stories, so that I could tell this one.” Lee’s rescue of stories belonging to older women is...

Africaville by Jeffrey Colvin [in Shelf Awareness]

25 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Black/African American, Canadian, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Repost

The town of Africville exists, designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1996. The small coastal community on the edge of Halifax, Nova Scotia, was home to black residents since the early 1800s, the majority with southern U.S. and Caribbean origins. Narrative magazine assistant editor Jeffrey...

A Match Made in Mehendi by Nandini Bajpai [in Booklist]

11 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Audio, Fiction, Indian American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, South Asian American, Young Adult Readers

When Simi’s habitual klutziness leads (surprise!) to the unlikely pairing of her recently single cousin with the furniture store owner’s lawyer-to-be son, her mother and masi – mother’s sister – have irrefutable proof that Simi’s inherited the family talent: matchmaking. For three generations, the women...

The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell [in Booklist]

31 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, African, Audio, Black/African American, Fiction, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW Not far from the Zambezi River’s Victoria Falls, a fin-de-siècle colonial settlement called the Old Drift was the site of a loosely described “hotel,” where a colliding incident in 1904 combines the fates of three families originally Italian, British, would-be-Zambian – for a century-plus...

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead [in Booklist]

30 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Black/African American, Fiction, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW Pulitzer Prized, National Book Awarded for The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead moves a century-plus forward to 1960s Florida, where having darker skin remains crime enough (the contemporary irony looms). J.D. Jackson proceeds deliberately, his narration measured and nuanced, avoiding over-performing through even the most...

Count Me In by Varsha Bajaj [in Booklist]

27 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Audio, Fiction, Indian African, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, South Asian American

Karina and Chris are next-door neighbors and attend the same school, but they “have [their] own paths”: Karina – ebulliently voiced by Priya Ayyar, who shares her character’s Indian American ancestry – is drawn to photography and books; Chris – earnestly narrated by Christopher Gebauer...

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