The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini [in AsianWeek]
30 May, by in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Afghan, Afghan American, Fiction, Repost
A resonating, breathtaking first novel that chronicles the relationship of two boys, born and raised in Kabul, Afghanistan – both motherless, both nursed by the same woman and both lives inextricably linked, even in...
A debut collection of nine elliptical stories about lost souls in Los Angeles.
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In the final chapter of The Chinese in America, Iris Chang writes, "I can only close this book with a fervent hope: that readers will recognize the story of my people – the Chinese in the...
Xinran: The Voice of the Good Women of China
The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices is one of those books you just can’t put down. Part memoir, part history, part tragedy, part social documentary, Good Women...
A young boy's special relationship with Chachaji, his father's old uncle, teaches him important lessons about family bonds and his rich Indian heritage.
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A look at the predominantly 1960s immigration and settlement patterns of Indian American Patels, a group highly visible because of their concentrated representation in the motel business throughout the United States.
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A fabulous collection of 66 poems and stories by diverse APA women, from young girls struggling with identity to long-established voices searching for truth.
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A toothsome tale set in L.A.'s richly diverse Arab American community, interspersing a love story about a hapa-Iraqi American chef who falls in love with
an exiled Iraqi professor. What a major relief to read something about...
A children’s version of the Polly Bemis story – called the Pacific Northwest’s most famous Chinese American pioneer – released in time for the 150th anniversary of Bemis’ birth in 1853.
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The immigration story, told through the metaphor of planting a garden on rich new soil, captured in brilliant color and poignant text.
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A landmark collection of vibrant prose and haunting poetry from a not-so-well-known, relatively new segment of the country’s growing APA community.
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Kibria’s extensive interviews of Chinese Americans and Korean Americans in Boston and Los Angeles in the 1980s and ’90s make for an incredibly familiar and enlightening title.
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The paperback re-issue of a collection of essays on all things Japanese by the world’s most famous honorary almost-Japanese.
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The Creation of Fiction
Time for true confessions: When I read Ruth Ozeki's first novel, My Year of Meats, a quirky, rollicking, memorable adventure about a documentary filmmaker who exposes the abuses in...
An overwhelming, necessary, eye-witnessing anthology of the legacy of a century of colonial – political, economic, and especially social – occupation of the Philippines by the United States.
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From the author of the fabulous memoir The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee about growing up hapa, a new collection of irreverent, irresistible, humorous, heartbreaking poems.
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A comprehensive overview of the history of Asian American politics, from the early historical cases of the first Asian immigrants against exclusion, to significant immigration law changes in 1924 (which virtually shut...
While it may not keep you away from the malls and chic-chic boutiques, it may at least make you think twice about what you’re buying … the fashion-world exposé for every shopaholic in your...
The concept of “Western modernity” traveling east throughout Asia, as it is reflected in the contemporary cinemas of Japan, Korea, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
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