No More Cherry Blossoms: Sisters Matsumoto and Other Plays by Philip Kan Gotanda + Author Profile [in AsianWeek]
26 Nov, by in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Drama/Theater, Japanese American, Repost
The Philip Kan Gotanda Chronicles
He captured early-20th-century Hawai‘i with his bittersweet tale of thwarted love in Ballad of Yachiyo. He was the first playwright to ever dramatize life immediately after...
Responding with Hope to 9/11: A Talk with Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni About Her Latest Novel, Queen of Dreams
Three years after the tragic events of 9/11, 
Calling himself "quite an ordinary man" even as he tops his country's List of Shame, Vikram Lall recounts four decades of his "in-between" life in...
An academic – but thoroughly readable – look at what defines the growing, loose boundaries of South Asian American literature, an area in which titles appear to be multiplying daily.
Review: <a href="http://bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/asianweek-2004-10-28-new-and-notable.pdf"...
Bombay plays the starring role in this entertaining (at times disturbing) epic memoir by a South Asian American writer who returns to the world’s largest city – now called Mumbai – with his London-raised...
Belle Lettres for Kids
What lovely serendipity that just as our oldest child started reading in 1999, one of my very favorite writers, 
A fascinating collection that examines the diversity and overlapping similarities of the contemporary Korean American experience, post-L.A.-riots and a century after the...
The latest in the exploration of Asian American identity by young voices. “How do we – that is, Asian Americans of our generation – understand our individual and collective identities?” ask...
Jen’s third novel is a bittersweet examination of the Wongs, a complicated Chinese American family with a father named Carnegie (!), a Caucasian mother called Blondie, two Asian adoptee daughters, and one towheaded birthson....
A collection of poems that captures the experiences of a Korean American writer living in two worlds – her native Korea, her contemporary America. Neither and both are quite home as she navigates the...
This new edition of a bestselling classic biographical novel – should be on every student reading list! – includes a new essay, “Reclaiming Polly Bemis,” and discussion questions. <a href="http://www.mccunn.com/"...
Chang’s debut novel, following her memorable short story collection Hunger, is filled with complex characters and intricate details about their troubled lives. At its center is the narrator, Hong, a woman caught in multi-layered, multi-generational betrayals...
A Yellow 'Country of Origin'
Technically, writer Don Lee is a third-generation Korean American. But he was born in Tokyo where his father was working for the U.S. State Department. Then after moving...
With way too many viruses trying to get into my inbox every day, reading Transmission has been something of a voyeuristic romp.
Arjun Mehta can’t believe his good luck when he lands a job in Silicon...
While the tidbits of personal narratives are the most interesting, Louie’s extensively researched treatise explores the ever-changing Chinese American identity. Drawing on the experiences of a group of American-born Chinese (including herself)...
A fictional diary that the young Princess Kokachin might have written in the late-13th century, when she traveled from the court of the Mongol leader Kublai Khan in her native...
“We are a nation of immigrants,” Hing states in his introduction. And certainly that is a factual statement. However, since the United States was established more than two...
Told in the alternating voices of two Chinese American girls – American-born Sarah and recently arrived Ting – Cheng captures the story of an unlikely friendship. While Sarah and Ting, both fourth graders, may...
It starts out interestingly – although predictably – enough with a Chinese great-grandmother whose Gold Mountain husband returns with great riches, a grandmother who marries down but is saved from the Cultural Revolution by...