Golden Gate: A Novel in Verse by Vikram Seth [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]
A novel written entirely in verse, about the machinations of love in the modern age. John’s lonely, so Jan secretly runs a personal ad on his behalf. John finds Liz. Recently divorced Phil ends...
Hoping she will get over her latest romance, Karen’s parents send her to spend her 15th summer with her unusual, eccentric Aunt Augusta. There in her new environment, Karen makes new friends, finds new...
A young woman, the child of a Chinese Panamanian father and a German mother, grows up in New York housing projects trying to make sense of...
Middle daughter Ona unexpectedly commits suicide, leaving the other Leong family members to try and figure out why. The suicide acts as a pivotal point from which two very different Chinese American generations of parents and...
A delightful novel that follows immigrant graduate student Gita through her bumpy search for her ideal mate. In Chaitra 2040 – that is, March 1984 for the rest...
Born Jyoti, meaning "light," in a small Indian village, she is renamed Jasmine by her husband. Suddenly widowed at 17, Jasmine escapes to America where she begins an odyssey through the country, eventually landing in Iowa...
Young, naive Dimple Dasgupta marries an engineer bound for the U.S. and embarks on a new American adventure. But her expectations – of being married, of being a dutiful wife, of living a glamorous new life...
Mira returns to her native India after graduate school in England, to a new address on Nampally Road, a new lover, and new friends. But the post-colonial India she has returned to is governed...
Award-winning second poetry collection, about relationships between family and lovers.
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The memoir a one of the earliest Korean American pioneers, who left her native country for America at age 5 in 1905. Through a near century of change, Lee narrates the story of her...
An anthology of four plays by three Asian American women playwrights: 12-1-A by Wakako Yamauchi,
A collection of four plays by premiere Japanese American playwright