The Five Ancestors: Tiger (Book 1) by Jeff Stone [in AsianWeek]
04 Aug, by in Chinese, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers
The 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...
Got 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...
A 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...
Two 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,...
Here 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...
I 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...
Somehow 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...
A 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...
WOW. 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.
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Published 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...
The long-awaited follow-up to the provocative 
This recently married interracial academic couple (thinking ahead to the experiences of their future children) present 10 thoughtful, resonating, autobiographical essays from diverse multiracial voices.
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A long-overdue first biography of the life of extraordinary activist Yuri Kochiyama. Major plus: It’s extensively researched by a fellow activist.
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The 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...
Su-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...
Confession: 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...
Vicenza, 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...
The 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
Ten Thousand Sorrows by Elizabeth Kim, 
Not 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...