Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites by Jeffery F. Burton, Mary M. Farrell, Florence B. Lord, and Richard W. Lord [in AsianWeek]
28 Feb, by in Adult Readers, Japanese American, Nonfiction, Repost
Extremely timely title, especially with impending war upon us, that offers “an overview of the tangible remains currently left at the sites of the Japanese American internment during World War II.” Includes...
Catch a Tiger by Its Tales: Celebrating 100 Years of Korean American Literature
HONOLULU — Aesthetically, Century of the Tiger: One Hundred Years of Korean Culture in America 1903-2003 is one...
Interpreting the Immigrant's Life: Urban girl Suki Kim makes her literary debut
NEW YORK CITY — Suki Kim has a fantasy about “meeting all the many Asian Americans across the country.” She’s heard rumors that there are...
An undeniably superb, even breathtaking short story collection about life spent in the “in-between” by the Japanese-born, German-domiciled, multi-dimensioned Tawada.
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Four generations of the Lee family, in a tale that reads more like a novel than a memoir, who criss-cross continents over sprawling historical eras. And yes, it’s true – Lee’s father cannot travel...
The legendary Martin Luther King, Jr. remembered as a young boy by his older sister, with images spectacularly captured by the award-winning Korean American illustrator Chris Soentpiet.
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History in the Making
Drawn to Life: Yangsook Choi, when not being a kid, is busy writing and illustrating children's books
NEW YORK CITY — By the time Yangsook Choi graduated from art school, she already had her first...
Fabulous, thorough focus on the lives of APA women caught in poverty, isolation, servitude, and violent situations – and still surviving and fighting to make a better life. Based on research done in 2001 by...
While Mishima’s fiction (not to mention his flamboyant life) is internationally renowned, his dramas are virtually unknown in the West, although he published more than 60 plays. This collection includes five of...
The U.S. government’s need for scapegoats takes a chilling twist in Miyake’s effective debut novel, in which Executive Order 9066 is reinstated and the concentration camps are reopened. This time, the country’s...
An absolutely fabulous first novel about young Indian American named Rajiv Kothari, and his path to understanding his recently deceased father, his father’s view of life as an immigrant, and his own...
A touching memoir that traces the life of a young man from a tribal village in Burma. Thwe comes of age amidst political and economic turmoil, from his experiences as...
Memorable volume of collected plays by one of the most hard-working, prolific, talented, tenacious – not to mention incredibly charming – playwrights of our generation: Red, Scissors, A Beautiful Country, and Wonderland.
Review: <a href="http://bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com/files/2009/05/2002-11-29-new-and-notable.pdf"...
Often hilarious, surprisingly poignant play which looks at the life and works of the all-too-often caricatured Yoko Ono, perhaps the more talented (gasp! dare we say that?) of the Lennon-Ono duo.
Review: <a...
When My Name Was Keoko is the first title for young audiences to deal with the Japanese occupation of Korea during the first half of the 20th century, a torturous part of history about which few...
Get out of the way, Arthur Golden. Here’s the genuine voice who wants to set the story straight after Golden betrayed her confidence in his tawry, overexoticized rip-off, Memoirs of a Geisha. Oh, do NOT get...
An ultimately readable volume about race in America, which has moved beyond the black and white paradigm, written by the three co-directors of the American Assembly on Racial Equality, the...