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In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

03 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Chinese American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Repost

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie RobinsonShirley Temple Wong, with her new American name, arrives in her new American home. But making friends proves difficult. She...

Naomi’s Road by Joy Kogawa [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

03 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Canadian Asian Pacific American, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Japanese American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost

Naomi's RoadNaomi is just a little girl when World War II scatters her Japanese Canadian family. Separated from their parents, Naomi and her older brother Stephen are relocated far from their home in the care...

Plantation Child and Other Stories by Eve Begley Kiehm [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

03 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Hawaiian, Korean American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Short Stories, Young Adult Readers

Plantation ChildA group of lyrical, interrelated shorts stories about multi-generations of the Kim family, who begin their American lives in the Korean camp section of a Hawaiian sugarcane plantation in the early 1900s. As the...

American Dragons: Twenty-Five Asian American Voices edited by Laurence Yep [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

03 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Drama/Theater, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Poetry, Repost, Young Adult Readers

American DragonsA collection of short stories, poetry, and play excerpts from both established and new Asian American writers, about growing up Asian American. Caught between two cultures, the young voices of this collection ask,...

Gathering of Pearls by Sook Nyul Choi [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

03 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Fiction, Korean American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Gathering of PearlsSookan, the protagonist from Year of Impossible Goodbyes and Echoes of the White Giraffe, arrives in the U.S. at a small all-girls Catholic college from Korea. Her first...

All I Asking for Is My Body by Milton Murayama [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

02 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Hawaiian, Japanese American, Repost, Young Adult Readers

All I Asking For Is My BodyAn often comic, yet poignant work about the coming-of-age of young Kiyoshi, living in the Japanese plantation camps of Hawai'i during the 1930s and...

Yokohama, California by Toshio Mori [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

02 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese American, Repost, Short Stories

Yokohama, CaliforniaA collection of short stories about the Japanese Americans who live on and around Seventh Street, in the fictional community of Yokohama, a small town somewhere in California. The stories capture the spirit of...

The Chauvinist and Other Stories by Toshio Mori, with an introduction by Hisaye Yamamoto [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

02 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese American, Repost, Short Stories

ChauvinistA collection of short stories about the Japanese American experience in California before and after World War II. From established immigrants to desperate American-born citizens, these stories capture a spirit of quiet survival. Three decades separate...

Pangs of Love by David Wong Louie [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

02 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost, Short Stories

Pangs of LoveA memorable first collection of stories that explores the Asian American experience, with a spectrum of memorable characters – from a woman who pretends to speak no English to a young sushi...

The Incorporation of Eric Chung by Steven C. Lo [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

02 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost

Incorporation of Eric ChungEric Chung begins his American life as an engineering graduate student. From Lubbock, he heads to Dallas to climb the corporate ladder. He meets fast-talking Roger Holton, creator of the...

Rolling the R’s by R. Zamora Linmark [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

02 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Filipina/o American, Repost, Short Stories, Southeast Asian American

Rolling the RsA debut collection of interrelated short stories, predominantly about the Filipino American community in Honolulu – from young teenagers discovering their sexuality and coming to terms with their ethnicity to older citizens...

Disappearing Moon Cafe by Sky Lee [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

02 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Fiction, Repost

Disappearing Moon CafeThe Wong family saga, which begins in the 1890s in the Wild Canadian West when a Chinese man marries a Native Indian, is uncovered and recorded by his fifth-generation descendent, a new...

China Boy by Gus Lee [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

02 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost

China BoySoon after Kai Ting, the only American-born son of a once noble Chinese family now living in San Francisco, loses his beloved mother, his father remarries and brings home a cold, uncaring stepmother. ...

Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

02 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean American, Repost

Native SpeakerKorean American Henry Park is a spy whose life is falling apart: his wife just left him, his son died tragically, he has yet to make peace with his dead father. He’s assigned to...

The Coffin Tree by Wendy Law-Yone [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

02 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Myanmarese (Burmese), Myanmarese (Burmese) American, Repost

Coffin TreeA young woman, the daughter of a powerful political revolutionary, and her half-brother flee their native Burma following a political coup and arrive in New York, ill-prepared to cope with their new lives as...

Obasan by Joy Kogawa [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

02 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Fiction, Japanese American, Repost

ObasanWhen her elderly uncle dies, Naomi, an unmarried schoolteacher, is called back to the remote town of her childhood. There she is reunited with Obasan, her Uncle’s widow, and confronted with the shattered memories of her...

Clay Walls by Ronyoung Kim [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

02 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean American, Memoir, Repost

Clay WallsHaesu Chun, newly arrived in the U.S. from Korea with her husband, struggles to establish a home in a foreign land. Born into a wealthy family, Haesu is initially ill-prepared for the racism, humiliation,...

Sushi and Sourdough by Tooru J. Kanazawa [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

02 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese American, Repost

Sushi and SourdoughAt the turn of the century, Mat Fuse, a Japanese immigrant, heads for Alaska hoping to strike it rich panning for gold. When he finally gives up on his dream of a...

Typical American by Gish Jen [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

02 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost

Typical AmericanYifeng Chang arrives in the U.S., is renamed “Ralph” by an impatient official, and pursues an engineering degree. He is reunited with his older sister, Theresa, marries Helen, and moves to suburbia in search...

The Floating World by Cynthia Kadohata [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

02 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese American, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Floating WorldA coming-of-age novel about an adolescent named Olivia who, with her parents, her three brothers, and her tortuous grandmother, live a traveling life, following the search for available jobs. Her world is filled with...

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