Charlie Chan Is Dead 2: At Home in the World | An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction edited with an introduction by Jessica Hagedorn, preface by Elaine H. Kim [in AsianWeek]
27 Feb, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost, Short Stories, Young Adult Readers
The much awaited follow-up to the first Charlie Chan Is Dead (now already more than a decade old!), which includes the works of 42 Asian American writers ...
An entertaining coming-of-age novel-of-sorts about 20-year-old Yurika Song who is half-Japanese and half-Korean, who arrives from Japan to work for a summer at her Korean uncle's store in New York...
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A collection of poems that capture the multiplicity of being tied to Indian roots while living as an American in the borders of where Mexico and the United States intersect.
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Writing from a Different Place: A Profile of 2003 PEN/Faulkner Award Winner Sabina Murray
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Behind the Mountains by Edwidge Danticat
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Journalist Kalita looks at three waves of immigration since the 1965 immigration law changes by examining the lives three immigrant Indian families in Middlesex County, New Jersey, home of one of the largest Indian...
The latest in the 
An anthology of writings from a vast, diasporic group of women of Filipino descent, comprised mostly of new pieces from established authors and new voices.
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A unique collection of essays that explores the experience of being Japanese in Brazil (during the first half of the 20th century, tens of thousands of Japanese immigrated to Brazil)...
Part memoir, part activist handbook, part medical advice column, Hayashi who is the founder of the National Asian Women’s Health Organization, "breaks the silence” of her own history, debunks the myth of...
Finally, the first (and much awaited!) novel from the co-author of Farewell to Manzanar, the classic memoir of the internment experience (written with hubby James Houston). Legend captures...
A playfully clever, subversive story with fabulously whimsical pictures about a little Korean girl who doesn’t like her name spelled out in English letters: “Lines. Circles. Each standing alone,” she...
The third installment in the 
Having survived the horrors of war in her native Laos and 10 long years of living in a cramped, filthy, and dangerous refugee camp in Thailand, Mai Yang and her grandmother are finally allowed...
A striking, original collection of multi-layered short stories about life caught between the old and modern, between expectations and hopes, between dreams and reality. The opening story, “Gopal’s Kitchen,” is especially poignant about a...