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Marisol McDonald and the Clash Bash | Marisol McDonald y la fiesta sin igual by Monica Brown, illustrated by Sara Palacios, Spanish translation by Adriana Domínguez

16 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Bilingual, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Latina/o/x, South American

In case you need an introduction to the "unique, different, and one of a kind" Marisol McDonald, check out her 2011 debut here: Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match. Now that she's starring in her second book, I hope that means Marisol's got her own series going, so we...

The Longshot by Katie Kitamura

11 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Japanese American, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers

Along the lines of Haruki Murakami's What I Talk About When I Talk About Running and Neal Bascomb's The Perfect Mile being running books, or Chris Cleave's Gold a biking title, or Thien Pham's Sumo and Gail Tsukiyama's The Street of a Thousand Blossoms sumo wrestling books, Katie Kitamura's debut is a boxing novel – or...

Untold Story by Monica Ali

10 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, British, British Asian, Fiction

Monica Ali's latest novel which pubbed June 28, 2011, just before what would have been Diana Spencer's 50th birthday – July 1, 2011 – had "The People's Princess" lived. In case the cover wasn't enough of a clue, that date detail matters because Untold Story imagines that Diana left...

Here I Am by Patti Kim, illustrated by Sonia Sánchez

06 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Korean, Korean American, Latina/o/x

I haven't seen Patti Kim’s name on a book cover in quite a while ...

Upside Down: A Vampire Tale by Jess Smart Smiley

31 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific

Since I temporarily seem to find myself in Utah – although I admit it's not quite as frightening here as I thought it might be, ahem! – I figured this spookfest would not be complete without a Utahn Halloween manga, right? Jess Smart Smiley, who "lives in the bewitching mountains of Utah,"...

The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride

26 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Audio, Biography, Black/African American, Hapa/Mixed-race, Memoir, Nonfiction

What writer and musician James McBride initially thought might take just six months to write required 14 long years to produce his now-almost-20-year-old debut title, The Color of Water. "Mommy" – McBride never calls her anything else – was never a cooperative subject: she shared her memories in her...

Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter

13 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, European, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific

So here's the last of my recent unintentional assemblage of end-of-World-War-II novels that began with Elizabeth Wein’s wrenching Rose Under Fire, and progressed with Chris Bohjalian's desperate Skeletons at the Feast and continued with his latest, the vengeful The Light in the Ruins. Of this week's quartet, Jess Walter’s Beautiful Ruins (how about that...

A Handbook to Luck by Cristina García

07 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Caribbean American, Cuban, Cuban American, Fiction, Iranian, Latin American, Latina/o/x

Tell me if you've heard this one before: a Cuban, an El Salvadorean, and an Iranian land on the page and spend decades trying to find their place in the world. Yes? Then, you must have read Cristina García’s A Handbook to Luck. No? Then read...

Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb

06 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, African, Audio, British, Canadian, Fiction

Raised as a Roman Catholic convinced of at least one past life as a Jewish grandmother, I find myself in my old age utterly wary of institutionalized religions, repeatedly alarmed at what we human beings commit upon one another in the name of various (one-and-only)...

Mira in the Present Tense by Sita Brahmachari

02 Oct, by SIBookDragon in British, British Asian, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers

On the evening of her 12th birthday, Mira Levenson receives three life-changing (death-defying) gifts: a diary, a charm, and her period. As one-quarter of a school writing class (led by an author named Miss Print!), Mira finds her voice – silently at first through the diary...

Ling & Ting Share a Birthday by Grace Lin

24 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, Chinese American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers

The inimitable Grace Lin is at it again ...

Author Profile: Kim Thúy [in Bloom]

16 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Fiction, Memoir, Repost, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American, Translation, Vietnamese, Vietnamese American

Kim Thúy’s Ru: An Apple for the Reader Ah, well . . . better start with true confessions: my words appear on the back cover of the U.S. edition (at least the first printing) of Vietnamese Canadian author Kim Thúy’s debut novel, Ru. The blurb is...

If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan

12 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Fiction, Iranian, Iranian American, Middle Grade Readers

Let me know if you've heard this one before ...

Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World That Made Him by David Henry and Joe Henry [in Library Journal]

03 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Biography, Black/African American, Nonfiction, Repost

The latest biography of "the world's most brilliant stand-up comedian" is the culmination of a project that took more than a decade (originally intended as a three-act screenplay) by screenwriter David Henry and his brother, musician Joe Henry. Born in 1940 in Peoria, IL, Richard...

The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri [in Library Journal]

15 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American

*STARRED REVIEW Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri's (The Interpreter of Maladies) unparalleled ability to transform the smallest moments into whole lives pinnacles in this extraordinary story of two brothers – so close that one is "the other side" of the other – coming of age in the political...

I See the Promised Land: A Life of Martin Luther King Jr. by Arthur Flowers, illustrated by Manu Chitrakar, designed by Guglielmo Rossi

09 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Biography, Black/African American, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Indian, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, South Asian, Young Adult Readers

Arthur Flowers, a "blues-based" performance poet, musician, and professor, introduces himself as "Rickydoc Trickmaster," to render the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. into a biography for younger readers, as traditional Patua Indian scroll painter Manu Chitrakar brings Flowers' recitation to vibrant life. Their combined...

The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O’Farrell

03 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, British, Fiction, Irish, Nonethnic-specific

On a summer afternoon in mid-1950s rural England on the border between Devon and Cornwall, journalist Innes Kent, already 34, happens upon angry Alexandra Sinclair, not yet 22. During their brief exchange in her parents' yard after he hits car trouble, he manages to inadvertently...

Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil

30 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Indian, South Asian

Without intending any disrespect to narrator Robertson Dean (in fact, his deep, rich voice makes for a memorable listen), this is a book you must see on the page. If you only go audible, you'll miss you too much from the very first sentence onward:...

pepita: Inoue meets Gaudí by Takehiko Inoue, translated by Emi Louie-Nishikawa

26 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Biography, Japanese, Memoir, Nonfiction, Translation, Young Adult Readers

A biography, a travel memoir, and a piece of art landed on my desk ...

On the Noodle Road: From Beijing to Rome with Love and Pasta by Jen Lin-Liu

22 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Central Asian, Chinese, Chinese American, Memoir, Nonfiction

Just in case you're pressed for time, let me offer this short-cut alternative up front: if you're looking for a fabulous foodie book that takes you to unexpected corners of the world, bypass Noodle Road and try Jennifer 8. Lee's The Fortune Cookie Chronicles instead. If...

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