A River Sutra by Gita Mehta [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]
02 Mar, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American
A retired civil servant living along the holy Narmada River whose banks are believed to contain 400 billion sacred places, comes into contact with numerous travelers and their mesmerizing stories, including an ascetic monk...
In post-Mao China, Katherine, a young American, teaches English to a group of Chinese workers. Her life becomes especially entwined with two of her students, Zebra and Lion Head, eventually resulting in a disastrous love triangle....
When famine strikes northern China in 1871, Lalu Nathoy is sold off at age 13, is eventually taken by a slave merchant to America, and auctioned off to a seedy...
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...
Dancer Dawkins is searching for her lover Jessica. Little Willy Gutherie is searching for a new life as the California Kid. They collide on a San Francisco road which sets in motion a chain...
Dancer Dawkins is trying to get over a bad break-up. She heads to San Francisco in search of solace with old friends The Kid and Ta Fan, and gets indirectly mixed up with gangsters,...
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...
Three novellas about three remarkable, though ultimately tragic Filipino women: Narita, a politician trying to escape her poverty-stricken past, Ermita, a very high class prostitute in search of true love, and Malu,...
In 2052, America has deteriorated beyond recognition. Francie, 19, lives with her Auntie Annie and Rohn, Annie’s boyfriend, in Los Angeles, where...
Kingston’s first novel about the often comic mishaps and adventures of Wittman Ah Sing, who is one year out of Berkeley, a slacker before his time. Set in the 1960s, Wittman’s dream is to...
Rio, a feisty young schoolgirl, comes of age in turbulent Manila during the final dictatorship in the Philippines. Her world is populated with American films and movie starts, soda shops, political corruption and turmoil, and a...
A collection of 11 short stories about young Indian and Indian American women, some married, some single, in various stages of claiming independence from their well-meaning but suffocating families and their oppressive patriarchal heritage....
Sarah, a young and naive New York Jew, impulsively marries Roland, an Indian immigrant from the Caribbean. Months after the wedding, Roland returns to his native Guiana, embroiled in its political turmoil....
American-born Ben Loy and Chinese-born Mei Oi are, at first, blissfully married until Ben Loy finds himself overworked and impotent. Mei Oi, lonely and isolated in the new...
A deft coming-of-age first novel about young Lovey Nariyoshi of Hilo, Hawai'i, trying to forge her identity amidst the mish-mash of Japanese American roots, coveted Barbie dolls, and...
Raymond Ding, a divorced Chinese American man in his 30s who prides himself on his strong ethnic identity and his politically correct views, is in love with Aurora Crane, a half-Japanese, half-Caucasian photojournalist in...
At age 6, Olivia meets for the first time, her adult half-sister Kwan, just arrived from China. Kwan shares with a disbelieving Olivia her stories of the Yin people – people not...
Helen and Winnie share a past that spans over 50 years and two continents, filled with hidden secrets. Now Helen thinks she’s dying, and feels she must tell all. Winnie realizes she...
Since 1949, four Chinese-born women, now living in San Francisco, gather regularly to play mah-jong and share their lives. Together they make up the Joy Luck Club. They share stories of the...
In a large San Francisco Victorian home live four Japanese American women, representing four generations: Reiko, the domineering matriarch, Rio, her desperate daughter, Tomoe, the dependable granddaughter-in-law, and Nomi, the rebellious great-granddaughter....