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Time to Pray by Maha Addasi, Arabic translation by Nuha Albitar, illustrated by Ned Gannon

16 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Arab American, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Middle Eastern

After reading (and being bothered, aggravated, and ultimately haunted by the unlikely-to-ever-be-forgotten Nomad by Ayaan Hirsi Ali), I seem to be in search of sweeter literary anecdotes about the Muslim experience. As she did in her debut, The White Nights of Ramadan, Kuwaiti-born author Maha Addasi lovingly...

Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

13 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, African, Audio, Memoir, Nonfiction

With the publication of her first memoir, Infidel (2007), Ayaan Hirsi Ali spent the better part of a year seeing her debut on the New York Times bestseller list. Born in Somalia, at times neglected, abandoned, or abused by her parents, the strictly-raised Muslim child that...

Author Interview: Karen Tei Yamashita [in Bookslut]

06 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Japanese American, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost

For the last two months or so, Karen Tei Yamashita will not get out of my life. And I say that with a goofy-grinned "wahhh" of delighted surprise. While I’ve been an ardent admirer of Yamashita’s books for some 20 years (yup, I have all...

Girls on the Edge: The Four Factors Driving the New Crisis for Girls – Sexual Identity, the Cyberbubble, Obsessions, Environmental Toxins by Leonard Sax

01 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

If you're a parent (or a parental figure) to a girl (even if that girl is still an infant!), you MUST read this book. Which means you can stop reading this post here. Go get the book already ...

Bijou Roy by Ronica Dhar

28 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Indian American, South Asian American

Six months after Nitish Roy’s death, his wife and two daughters gather in Calcutta, India where Bijou Roy as the oldest must send her father’s ashes down the holy river to eternal rest. The haphazard ceremony – made even more so because she is not...

Blue Jay Girl by Sylvia Ross

24 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Native American/First Nations/Indigenous Peoples

Sylvia Ross, LA-born and “raised … apart from her family Chukchansi culture,” as stated in her bio, has focused her writerly life on her Native American culture. Her latest title captures an inspiring ‘girl power’ story of long ago … about a “medium-sized” Yaudanchi child...

I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita [in Library Journal]

18 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese American, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost, Southeast Asian American

*STARRED REVIEW Comprising 10 novellas that took 10 years to craft, this is Yamashita’s (Circle K Cycles) magnum opus. Year by year, the novellas mark a decade’s worth of tumultuous Asian Pacific American (APA) history, from 1968, when ethnic studies was painfully birthed in San Francisco,...

Ling & Ting: Not Exactly the Same! by Grace Lin

17 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, Chinese American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers

Despite the fact that Ling and Ting are twins, they are not – regardless of their many similarities, regardless of what the barber says – exactly the same! And ever since Ting sneezed at just the wrong moment during their latest haircuts and lost an uneven...

Author Interview: Sonya Chung [in Bookslut]

04 May, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Korean American, Repost

By the time I actually met Sonya Chung, debut novelist of Long for This World, which hit shelves in March, I was already a groupie. Long was one of those suddenly-surprising-out-of-nowhere books that make you gasp. A publicist sent it to me initially and it...

MIXED: Portraits of Multicultural America by Kip Fulbeck, foreword by Dr. Maya Soetoro-Ng, afterword by Cher

28 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Children/Picture Books, Hapa/Mixed-race, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

What a perfect companion text to Kip Fulbeck's part asian • 100% hapa, his previous title for Chronicle Books ...

Map of the Invisible World by Tash Aw [in Bloomsbury Review]

24 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, British Asian, Fiction, Malaysian, Repost, Southeast Asian

Five years ago, Taipei-born Malaysian British Tash Aw landed in the media spotlight with The Harmony Silk Factory, complete with public speculations about an allegedly enormous debut advance. Decorated with multiple important prizes, including Commonwealth and Whitbread first novel awards, Aw’s Factory earned him both...

Yarn: Remembering the Way Home by Kyoko Mori

19 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Japanese, Japanese American, Memoir, Nonfiction

This weekend, I get to meet Kyoko Mori in livetime [I'm scheduled to moderate an Asian American literary panel on Sunday morning as part of the first-ever Amnesty International Human Rights Art Festival, sponsored by the brand-new Asian American Literary Review). Anyone can join me,...

Pearl of China by Anchee Min [in Library Journal]

15 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost

Min opens her latest with guilty sobs recalling her "brainwashed" teenaged self in 1970s China, when she was forced to denounce Pulitzer and Nobel prize-winning writer Pearl S. Buck to Madame Mao. That guilt clearly drove Min (Red Azalea) to write this "based on the...

Arab in America by Toufic El Rassi

13 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Arab American, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Memoir, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

If the observations, memories, and pop culture references here weren't so obviously recognizable in our post-9/11 western world, you might have read this graphic memoir as a hack comedy. The black-and-white panels initially seem almost unfinished, as if still in rough-draft mode. The contents might...

Prime Baby by Gene Luen Yang

10 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers

Gene Luen Yang, who made publishing history as the author of the first graphic novel ever to be nominated for a National Book Award, returns with an irresistible, hilarious little book that takes sibling rivalry to whole new heights. First serialized in The New York...

Snakes Can’t Run: A Mystery by Ed Lin

05 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction

Timing is everything, right? Last weekend, I had our teenage daughter and a friend of hers wandering NYC, and we happened to do the fabulous, downloadable Soundwalk/Chinatown walking tour narrated by Chinatown native Jami Gong – all three of us were attached to one iPod...

Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale by Belle Yang

02 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Memoir, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

Already lauded for her exquisitely illustrated family stories – Baba: A Return to China Upon My Father’s Shoulders, The Odyssey of a Manchurian, as well as numerous children’s titles – Yang debuts her first-ever graphic memoir, a multi-layered creation that details her own story of...

Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka 008 by Naoki Urasawa and Osamu Tezuka, co-authored by Takashi Nagasaki, with the cooperation of Tezuka Productions

24 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Translation, Young Adult Readers

Oh, tell me it ain't so ...

The Poker Bride: The First Chinese in the Wild West by Christopher Corbett [in San Francisco Chronicle]

20 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Nonfiction, Repost

The Poker Bride: The First Chinese in the Wild West, by Christopher Corbett, is an oddly disturbing read, not so much for its content but for its publication as a historical text about Asian American pioneer woman Polly Bemis, Corbett's eponymous "poker bride." Problems with historical...

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick

19 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Korean, Nonfiction, North Korean

Barbara Demick, currently the Beijing bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, spent five years as Seoul's bureau chief where she had unprecedented access to North Koreans. Her interviews, which began in 2001, eventually became Nothing to Envy, a mind-boggling, heartbreaking, surreal-ly humanizing portrait of six...

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