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The Five Ancestors: Tiger (Book 1) by Jeff Stone [in AsianWeek]

04 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Chinese, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Five Ancestors TigerThe inaugural title of an entertaining new series introduces five 17th-century Chinese young monks, each with special powers, who must save their world from destruction by one of their fellow brethren gone...

Monsoon Summer by Mitali Perkins [in AsianWeek]

04 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Indian, Indian American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American, Young Adult Readers

Monsoon SummerGot the publication date confused and held it longer than intended – but can’t let it go without saying this is a grand coming-of-age story. Jazz Gardner travels to India with her family where...

Negotiating Ethnicity: Second-Generation South Asian Americans Traverse a Transnational World by Bandana Purkayastha [in AsianWeek]

04 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Bangladeshi American, Indian American, Nepali American, Nonfiction, Pakistani American, Repost, South Asian American

Negotiating EthnicityA careful examination of 48 second-generation South Asian Americans whose parents arrived from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal during 1965 and the mid-1980s. Through personal stories and sociological context, Purkayastha explores how this second...

Hardboiled & Hard Luck by Banana Yoshimoto, translated by Michael Emmerich [in AsianWeek]

04 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese, Repost, Translation

Hardboiled and Hard LuckTwo novellas about women on the verge of change: in Hardboiled, a woman hiking in remote mountains realizes it’s the anniversary of her ex-lover’s death and overnights with a ghost,...

The Red Carpet: Bangalore Stories by Lavanya Sankaran [in AsianWeek]

04 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Indian, Repost, Short Stories, South Asian

Red CarpetHere the connecting thread is that of place: a changing, bustling Bangalore at the core of fabulous stories about a man who falls in love too late with the wrong woman, an old man...

Girls for Breakfast by David Yoo [in AsianWeek]

30 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Korean American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Girls for BreakfastI can only hope that the majority of APA adolescent boys are nothing like Nick Park – the lone Asian American in a Connecticut suburb, convinced that his Korean American-ness is what...

Blue Jasmine by Kashmira Sheth [in AsianWeek]

30 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Indian American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, South Asian American, Young Adult Readers

Blue JasmineSomehow missed this title earlier, even as it won the 2004 Paul Zindel First Novel Award. While the story is familiar – a young girl moves from a loving home filled with extended family...

In the absent everyday by Tsering Wangmo Dhompa [in AsianWeek]

30 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Poetry, Repost, Tibetan American

In the absent everydayA varied collection of elliptical poems from Tsering, possibly the only Tibetan American writer publishing regularly. Her words, her images, her memories seem to weave together to reinvent and reconstruct...

White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son by Tim Wise [in AsianWeek]

30 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

White Like MeWOW. Here’s a white man’s exploration of race in America and his humble, blunt, sometimes even unknowingly racist attempts to be anti-racist even as he is part of the privileged majority. Review: <a...

The Almond: The Sexual Awakening of a Muslim Woman by Nedjma, translated by C. Jane Hunter [in AsianWeek]

30 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, African, European, Fiction, Repost, Translation

AlmondPublished under a pseudonym because of its autobiographical nature, this hoping-to-be controversial novel recounts the erotic maturation of a young Muslim woman. She’s married off at 17 to an older man who brutalizes her under familial...

Mr. Muo’s Travelling Couch by Dai Sijie, translated by Ina Rilke [in AsianWeek]

30 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese, Fiction, Repost, Translation

Mr Muo's Travelling CouchThe long-awaited follow-up to the provocative Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress introduces readers to the hapless Muo, a newbie Freud devotee, who returns to his native China...

Mixing It Up: Multiracial Subjects edited by SanSan Kwan and Kenneth Speirs, foreword by Naomi Zack [in AsianWeek]

26 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Hapa/Mixed-race, Nonfiction, Repost

Mixing It UpThis recently married interracial academic couple (thinking ahead to the experiences of their future children) present 10 thoughtful, resonating, autobiographical essays from diverse multiracial voices. Review: "New and Notable Books," AsianWeek,...

Heartbeat of a Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama by Diane C. Fujino [in AsianWeek]

26 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Biography, Japanese American, Nonfiction, Repost

Heartbeat of StruggleA long-overdue first biography of the life of extraordinary activist Yuri Kochiyama. Major plus: It’s extensively researched by a fellow activist. Review: "New and Notable Books," AsianWeek, May 26, 2005 Readers: Adult Published:...

Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds: The Sammy Lee Story by Paula Yoo + Author Interview [in AsianWeek]

12 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Author Interview/Profile, Biography, Children/Picture Books, Korean American, Nonfiction, Repost

Sixteen Years in Sixteen SecondsThe Patiently Tenacious Paula Yoo When Paula Yoo got her first official rejection from a publisher, she ripped up the letter and threw a bona fide temper tantrum. She...

Midnight at the Dragon Café by Judy Fong Bates [in AsianWeek]

05 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost

Midnight at the Dragon CafeSu-Jen becomes “Annie” when she immigrates to Canada at age 6 with her mother. Her father has set up a Chinese restaurant, and in the small Ontario town...

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro [in AsianWeek]

05 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, British, British Asian, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost

Never Let Me GoConfession: I’m an utter Ishiguro groupie. His latest novel makes me only more obsessed, even as it completely creeps me out. Hailsham (halcyon? sham? ) is the English countryside boarding...

Fresh Off the Boat by Melissa de la Cruz [in AsianWeek]

05 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Filipina/o American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Southeast Asian American, Young Adult Readers

Fresh Off the BoatVicenza, 14, is F.O.P. – fresh off the plane – from the Philippines where she was undoubtedly the belle of ball. Now a financially challenged immigrant in San Francisco who’s...

Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata + Author Interview [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Japanese American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers

kira-kiraThe Best Wake-Up Call of All: Cynthia Kadohata's Kira-Kira Wins 2005 Newbery Calls coming in at 4:26 a.m. don’t usually make people jump up and down and scream for joy. But Cynthia Kadohata, still half-asleep in her...

Somebody’s Daughter by Marie Myung-Ok Lee + Author Interview [in AsianWeek]

22 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean American, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Sombody's DaughterSomebody's Daughter Ten Thousand Sorrows by Elizabeth Kim, A Single Square Picture by Katy Robinson, and The Language of Blood by Jane Jeong Trenka are just some of the available memoirs...

Sadika’s Way: A Novel of Pakistan and America by Hina Haq [in AsianWeek]

07 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Pakistani, Pakistani American, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American

Sadika's WayNot exactly one of the newest titles (it arrived later than sooner on my desk), but certainly noteworthy because of its subject matter. It opens with the Pakistani birth of Sadika – an unwanted...

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