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The Dreamer by Pam Muñoz Ryan, illustrated by Peter Sís

24 Feb, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Latina/o/x, Middle Grade Readers, Poetry, South American, Verse Novel/Nonfiction

"On a continent of many songs, in a country shaped like the arm of a guitarrista, the rain drummed down on the town of Temuco [Chile]," the invitingly dreamy Dreamer begins. Neftalí Reyes, the eponymous dreamer, is most content to live in a world of stories,...

Dumpling Days by Grace Lin

13 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Chinese American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Taiwanese American

Even though today's calendar reminds you it's Friday the 13th, no worries! Let me share with you the youthful wisdom of one Grace Pacy Lin: "There was no day dumplings couldn't make better." After a long-awaited four-year hiatus, Pacy's back ...

Nervous Conditions by by Tsitsi Dangarembga

07 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, African, Fiction, Young Adult Readers

The first sentence of Tsitsi Dangarembga's semi-autobiographical novel sets a haunting tone: "I was not sorry when my brother died." With his death, 13-year-old Tambu is presented with a profound opportunity: even though she's a girl, as the now-eldest child in her poor village family...

China in Ten Words by Yu Hua, translated by Allan H. Barr

08 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese, Memoir, Nonfiction, Translation

Yu Hua is a grand master of subversion. Just as his title – China In Ten Words – promises, Yu “compress[es] the endless chatter of China today into ten simple words ...

On Black Sisters Street by Chika Unigwe

15 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, African, European, Fiction, Translation

Four women, living together in a house in Antwerp, Belgium, are "[t]hrown together by a conspiracy of fate and a loud man called Dele." They have escaped their lives in Africa, but only at the cost of their freedom; Dele, who orchestrated their immigration, now...

Whorled: Poems by Ed Bok Lee

09 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Korean American, Poetry

Timing is everything: I'm convinced my just-got-back trip from Korea gave me an especially empathetic appreciation for poetry slam artist/writer/playwright Ed Bok Lee's latest collection. I just wandered some of those same streets! And I definitely had to read it at 38,000-feet cruising altitude between there...

Brothers by Yu Hua, translated by Eileen Cheng-yin Chow and Carlos Rojas

04 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Chinese, Fiction, Translation

Yu Hua's unforgettable tome requires a solid commitment in time and patience, yet your reward for finishing the final page will make your investment amply worthwhile. The opening paragraph begins with the end: "Baldy Li, our Liu Town's premier tycoon," sits contemplating his life on his...

Drifting House by Krys Lee [in Library Journal]

27 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Korean American, North Korean, Repost, Short Stories

* STARRED REVIEW Krys Lee, whose peregrinations originated and are currently paused in Korea with formative stopovers in the U.S. and England, infuses the nine stories of her breathtaking debut with the consequences of dislocation – whether forced because of war, or chosen by virtue of...

Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje

24 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Fiction, South Asian, Sri Lankan

Before I let myself even open Michael Ondaatje's newest title, The Cat's Table, which hit shelves earlier this month, I was determined to read his previous novels that I had somehow missed. The realization that I have now earned access to Table is rather bittersweet as...

The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine by Somaly Mam

12 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Cambodian, Cambodian American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American

Before you open Somaly Mam's astonishing memoir, you need to be prepared to bear witness to some of the most horrific acts a human being can commit against another, especially helpless young girls. Once you begin, the frank, unmitigated writing will not allow you to...

You Know When the Men Are Gone by Siobhan Fallon

08 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Short Stories

All is definitely not fair in love and war ...

Author Interview: Ha Jin [in Bookslut]

03 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost, Short Stories

Ha Jin has lived through difficult, defining events: the Cultural Revolution in his native China, military service that began when he was a young teenager, immigration and subsequent separation from home and family. On the page, he has vividly reproduced the repression of the Cultural...

Habibi by Craig Thompson

28 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Middle Eastern, Nonethnic-specific

Since Craig Thompson's Habibi hit shelves last week (official release date was last Tuesday, September 20), I guess the secret of its magnificence is out ...

There Is No Me Without You: One Woman’s Odyssey to Rescue Her Country’s Children by Melissa Fay Greene

25 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, African, Audio, Biography, Jewish, Nonfiction

Melissa Fay Greene first arrived last spring in my mailbox via her latest book, No Biking in the House Without a Helmet, and made me cry. But she also left me tickled with joyous laughter at the antics of her sprawling, multiplying, multi-ethnic family. While Biking made me...

And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell, illustrated by Henry Cole

24 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific

Welcome to Banned Books Week 2011, which begins today and ends October 1. Leading the "Top ten most frequently challenged books of 2010" – at the top for the fifth year in a row, with a respite at #2 in 2009! – is little Tango. Reasons cited: "homosexuality, religious viewpoint,...

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

18 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, European, Fiction

Eight years have passed since Jeffrey Eugenides won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (as well as too many other accolades to list) for this, his second novel, and nine years since it was first published. Nine years later (pattern forming here? – his debut The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex are also...

Señora Honeycomb by Fanny Buitrago, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden

17 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, South American, Translation

Little orphan Teodora promises her dying godmother to look after her worthless bed-hopping son. Raised Cinderella-style in a small village in Colombia, Teodora willingly enslaves herself to ensure handsome but immoral Galaor's every comfort, and not surprisingly falls madly in love with him. 'Love is...

Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match | Marisol McDonald no combina by Monica Brown, illustrated by Sara Palacios, Spanish translation by Adriana Domínguez

08 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Bilingual, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Latina/o/x, South American

With prolonged bleak skies across the East Coast thanks to Katia, Lee, and incoming Nate (not to mention recovery from Irene), Marisol McDonald is one brilliant, rambunctious, delightful diversion. "My name is Marisol McDonald, and I don't match," the flame-haired, brown-skinned, fearless, Peruvian Scottish American little girl announces....

Author Interview: Jessica Hagedorn [in Bookslut]

05 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Filipina/o American, Repost

When I first met the inimitable Jessica Hagedorn eight years ago – her 2003 novel Dream Jungle, in which Hagedorn intertwines the alleged discovery of an ancient "lost tribe" in the remote hills of the Philippines with the problematic filming of Apocalypse Now, was just...

Defiance: Resistance Book 2 by Carla Jablonski, illustrated by Leland Purvis, color by Hilary Sycamore

25 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in European, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers

The story of the brave Tessier children, begun in last year's Resistance, continues here with the focus on the middle child, teenager Paul and his courageous tenacity. The year is 1943, and the German occupation of France is an everyday nightmare. "[T]o ensure their continued control,...

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