The Politics of Life: Four Plays by Asian American Women edited by Velina Hasu Houston [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]
01 Mar, by in Adult Readers, Drama/Theater, Hapa/Mixed-race, Japanese American, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost
An anthology of four plays by three Asian American women playwrights: 12-1-A by Wakako Yamauchi, Bitter Cane by Genny Lim, and Asa Ga Kimashita (Morning Has Broken) by Velina Hasu...
An anthology of diverse plays by six Asian American women playwrights: 
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