The Girl in the Picture: The Story of Kim Phuc, the Photograph, and the Vietnam War by Denise Chong + Author and Subject Profiles [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]
01 Dec, by in Adult Readers, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Nonfiction, Repost, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American, Vietnamese
The Girl in the Picture
It is undoubtedly the most famous image of the tragedy of War: in its center, a young, naked girl screams in agony and terror, her thin...
The Easiest Thing to Do Is Stop Writing
Having just returned from Italy where he got a little R&R and did some research on his next novel, Chang-rae Lee didn’t even have time to recover...
A rare first-person account of an immigrant's journey to America during the period of Chinese Exclusion. The memoir, written with his daughter, covers over a half century of Chin's life from his entry into...
With A Blessing Over Ashes: The Remarkable Odyssey of My Unlikely Brother, Adam Fifield adds a new twist to the currently trendy suffering-child memoir boom (a lá Angela’s Ashes – and really, no disrespect...
In Overdrive: Frances Park’s Sweet Road to Success
What began as a short story has quickly become Frances Park’s breakout novel. When My Sister Was Cleopatra Moon...
A Japanese American man recounts his grandfather’s journey from Japan to America, and back to Japan. He comes to understand his grandfather’s feelings of being torn by a sense of being home in two...
Aekyung, a young Korean girl recently arrived in the U.S., is teased at school for her different features and has not yet made friends. Inspired by a dream about King Sejong who created Hangul,...
Tiffany and Kevin, two Japanese American children, move to Japan because of their father’s job. While they might look like "chopsticks among other chopsticks," they are American, which proves to be very...
Yunmi’s grandmother (her "Halmoni," in Korean) has recently arrived from Korea and has difficulty adjusting to life in America. With the help of her friends, Yunmi persuades her grandmother to...
The story of a young Chinese American boy growing up in a small produce town in California is told through wonderful sketches that capture the places, faces, and...
A collection of original stories about growing up as an Asian American child, centered around the diverse ethnic Asian communities of Chicago – featuring Asian Americans of Bangladeshi, Cambodian, Chinese, Filipino, Indian,...
A collection of eight original tales that draw on the real-life experiences of the Chinese who immigrated to North America in the latter half of the 19th century during the...
Young Ernie is about to experience the most important day of his life. He will perform his first Lion Dance through the streets of New York City’s Chinatown, as part of the Chinese New...
Hien’s village is destroyed during the Vietnam War, killing her mother and grandmother. Hien is seriously injured and must go to the U.S. for an operation; after, she begins to live with an American...
Young Ut recently arrived in the U.S. from Vietnam with her siblings and father, but the family still waits for their mother. Ut’s new life is difficult, as other students...
Undoubtedly, this is the prolific Yep's signature title, as well as one of his most award-winning, including a 
When her gambling father is hospitalized, 12-year-old Casey is sent to live with the relatives of her passed-away mother who she never knew. With the help of her loving grandmother...
Nine-year-old Yingtao Yang has just moved with his family from China to Seattle. As he adjusts to his new American life – making friends and discovering baseball – he struggles daily with...
Yingmei Yang wants to "be American." She’s changed her name to Mary, keeps a notebook of American slang, and tries her best to make friends at school. But she realizes that fitting...
Alice Larsen is a popular seventh-grade cheerleader. Then Yoon Jun Lee arrives from Korea, and Alice’s father wants her to be his friend. Although...