Shirley Temple Wong, with her new American name, arrives in her new American home. But making friends proves difficult. She...
Naomi 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...
A 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...
A 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,...
Sookan, 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...
An 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...
A 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...
A 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...
A 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...
Eric 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...
A 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...
The 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...
Soon 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. ...
Korean 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...
A 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...
When 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...
Haesu 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,...
At 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...
Yifeng 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...
A 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...
