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The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies [in Booklist]

11 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Hong Kongese, Repost, Young Adult Readers

*STARRED REVIEW British-born of Welsh and Chinese parentage, Peter Ho Davies (The Welsh Girl, 2007) has lived stateside since 1992, but this is his first U.S.-set title. In it he explores the history of his adopted home in four sections. In “Gold,” he links the completion of...

How I Became a North Korean by Krys Lee [in Library Journal]

08 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Korean American, North Korean, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW After the brutal murder of his father and the wrenching separation from his mother and sister, Yongju must survive a new life of deprivation after his privileged upbringing as the only son of one of North Korea’s power elite. Danny, a misfit immigrant teen...

A Poet of the Invisible World by Michael Golding [in Library Journal]

05 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Jewish, Persian, Repost

To get her four-eared infant to safety, Nouri Ahmad Mohammad ibn Mahsoud al-Morad's mother gave first her body, then her life. In 13th-century Persia, a child so different would require divine intervention to survive, and Nouri literally falls into the arms of a gentle, crippled...

She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan [in Library Journal]

30 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Memoir, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW Originally published in 2003, Jennifer Finney Boylan’s groundbreaking memoir chronicling her transition from James to Jenny was updated in 2013: "Man, what you don't know could fill a book. I'm unique, however, in that the book filled with the things I don't know is...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Shimura Takako’s Wandering Son series

29 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Middle Grade Readers, Translation, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2016, Young Adult Readers

The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey by Dawn Anahid MacKeen [in Library Journal]

23 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Armenian American, Audio, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost

"[A]s a reporter, I was spending my life telling other people's stories and ignoring my own family's incredible one," Dawn Anahid MacKeen realized at 35. Her 78-year-old Armenian mother was aging, and MacKeen could no longer ignore her calls to "come home." In 2006, MacKeen left...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Marilyn Nelson’s American Ace

22 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Black/African American, European, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Irish American, Middle Grade Readers, Poetry, Verse Novel/Nonfiction, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2016, Young Adult Readers

Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephart

19 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific

Six days before eighth grade starts, Lily and Dunkin meet for the first time. Lily is still known mostly as Timothy, the boy name he was given at birth – but he's practicing being his true self: a girl named Lily. Dressed in her mother's dress and sandals,...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Marilyn Nelson’s My Seneca Village

16 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Black/African American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Poetry, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2016, Young Adult Readers

The Passenger by Lisa Lutz [in Library Journal]

12 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Nonethnic-specific

*STARRED REVIEW Tanya Dubois, as she's initially introduced, is not the woman her husband believed her to be. He's dead – she didn't do it – but Tanya runs anyway, shedding her name and recent past yet again and taking on another identity. In another town, another...

After Disasters by Viet Dinh [in Booklist]

10 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, European, Fiction, Indian, Repost, South Asian, Vietnamese American

*STARRED REVIEW O. Henry Prize winner (2009) and first-time novelist Dinh drops four fictional characters into the tragic aftermath of the real-life January 2001 cataclysmic earthquake in Gujarat, India, as they travel from New York, London, and Delhi to attempt to save lives, including their own. The...

Author Interview: Lynne Kutsukake [in Bloom]

07 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Canadian, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Fiction, Japanese, Japanese American, Repost

“Enemy aliens” is an all too familiar label, although just who gets thusly labeled seems to change with the political winds. With such an aggravated election year, these two words won’t be disappearing from the media anytime soon. Beyond our northern border, our Canadian neighbors did...

The Art of Being Normal by Lisa Williamson [in Shelf Awareness]

03 Jun, by SIBookDragon in British, Fiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

While his 8-year-old classmates wrote about wanting to be an actress, prime minister or even Harry Potter, David Piper had a six-word wish for his future: "I want to be a girl." At 14, David's wish has only become more fervent, as his traitorous body...

The Land of Forgotten Girls by Erin Entrada Kelly [in School Library Journal]

01 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Fiction, Filipina/o American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW Once upon a time, Soledad had two sisters and two loving parents. But tragedy can happen to anyone at any time, and suddenly, Sol and her younger sister, Ming, are transplanted to the other side of the world in a run-down apartment in Louisiana,...

Anna and the Swallow Man by Gavriel Savit

25 May, by SIBookDragon in Absolute Favorites, Audio, European, Fiction, Jewish, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers

Anna is 7 when her father disappears. In 1939 Krakow, Poland, being Jewish is enough to condemn people to death. When the Swallow Man appears – so named for his ability to conjure and communicate with birds – the unlikely pair reluctantly recognize in each other not...

Before We Visit the Goddess by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni + Author Interview

24 May, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Indian, Indian American, South Asian, South Asian American

Spanning 17 titles over a quarter century, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni has published books for every possible type of reader, including Grandma and the Great Gourd for the youngest, the three-volume Brotherhood of the Conch trilogy for middle grade/young adults, Black Candle for poetry lovers, Arranged Marriage for short story enthusiasts, and eight...

And After Many Days by Jowhor Ile [in Library Journal]

04 May, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, African, Audio, Black/African American, Fiction, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW For the rest of his life, Ajie would be known as the last person to have seen Paul, the family’s exemplary, exceptional firstborn. On a Monday afternoon during Nigeria’s 1995 rainy season, 17-year-old Paul announces he’s visiting a friend in the next compound; he...

Unidentified Suburban Object by Mike Jung [in Shelf Awareness]

29 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Fiction, Korean American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost

Primrose Heights is home to only three Asian Americans: 12-year-old Chloe Cho and her parents. In spite of Chloe's growing interest in her Korean heritage, her astrophysicist mother and fish store-owner father remain consistently mum about the family's past, always hedging with excuses like "Talking...

My Seneca Village by Marilyn Nelson

25 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Black/African American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Poetry, Verse Novel/Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

Seneca Village is real. Or was real. Bordered by West 82nd and 89th streets, and between Seventh and Eighth avenues in New York City's Upper West Side, "Seneca Village was Manhattan's first significant community of African American property owners." Founded in 1825, the community – which...

The Translation of Love by Lynne Kutsukake [in Christian Science Monitor]

12 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Canadian, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Fiction, Japanese, Japanese American, Repost

'The Translation of Love' seeks meaning amid the heartache of post-war Tokyo World War II is over, but the struggle to survive remains a daily battle for too many residents of 1947 Tokyo. Debut novelist Lynne Kutsukake gathers a remarkable cast from three countries in The...

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