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The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch by Chris Barton, illustrated by Don Tate

20 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Biography, Black/African American, Children/Picture Books, Hapa/Mixed-race, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction

Naysayers: picture book this is, yes, but I guarantee that unless you happen to be a post-Civil War scholar, you'll have something to learn inside these informative pages. Here are four reasons why most of us need to read this book: First reason: history. We all should know more about Reconstruction – a "cultural blind spot," as Chris...

Re Jane by Patricia Park [in Christian Science Monitor]

13 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Korean American, Repost

Re Jane cleverly recasts Jane Eyre as a Korean American from Queens If nothing else, choosing to retell a revered classic as a first novel requires either supreme spunk or reckless fatuity. For Patricia Park – who happens to be a thesis-advisee and protégée of National...

The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen + Author Interview [in Bloom]

08 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American, Vietnamese, Vietnamese American

Việt Thanh Nguyễn – Associate Professor at USC in English and American Studies – has a 25-page CV online that highlights countless publications, including articles, essays, book chapters, reviews, blog posts, commentaries, short stories, and more. His accomplishments are numerous: citations, awards, fellowships, etc. All...

Oddly Normal (Book 1) by Otis Frampton

03 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific

"I WISH YOU WOULD BOTH JUST DISAPPEAR!!!" What child hasn't at least thought that about their parents at some point?! If you're half-witch, and half-human, and you actually voice such words really loudly on your 10th birthday – cake candles and all – you just...

A Bollywood Affair by Sonali Dev

29 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Indian, Indian American, South Asian, South Asian American

Leaning toward something light, frothy, and just a little steamy for your next holiday season read? While the printed page is always grand, going audible here is also highly recommended: I'm thinking Priya Ayyar is quickly becoming one of my favorite crisp voices to stick in...

Jasmine Skies by Sita Brahmachari

23 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in British, British Asian, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers

When she made her Stateside debut last year in Sita Brahmachari's Mira in the Present Tense (titled Artichoke Hearts in the original edition across the Pond), hapa Jewish Indian British tween Mira Levenson seemed wise beyond her 12 years in the midst of losing her paternal grandmother...

Map of Betrayal by Ha Jin [in Library Journal]

24 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW CIA agent Gary Shang was convicted of spying for China yet called himself "a patriot of both the United States and China." Decades after Gary's death, Lilian, his only child with his American wife, unexpectedly inherits his diary from his longtime mistress and discovers...

The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow

14 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Black/African American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race

So here I sit facing a familiar conundrum ...

Sidewalk Dancing: A Novel in Stories by Letitia Moffitt

02 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Hawaiian, Short Stories

Two genres set my reading heart aflutter: novels in verse (highly ironic as I am an utter poetry dullard) and interlinked short storied novels. Hapa Hawaiian native Letitia Moffit’s Sidewalk Dancing falls in the latter category ...

How to Be an American Housewife by Margaret Dilloway

26 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Japanese, Japanese American

Okay, I confess the cover put me off from opening the book for months (well, actually, years); I recently compromised by choosing to go aural and was surprisingly delighted to spend almost eight hours with narrators Laural Merlington and Emily Durante (who take turns reading as mother and...

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng [in Library Journal]

01 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW Celeste Ng’s debut is one of those aching stories about which the reader knows so much more than any of the characters, even as each yearns for the unknowable truth. “Lydia is dead,” the novel opens – blunt, unnerving, devastating. She’s only 16, the middle of three...

Bird by Crystal Chan

17 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Audio, Black/African American, Caribbean American, Chinese American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Latina/o/x, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers

In the small town of Caledonia, Iowa, Jewel stands out: she's "'half-Jamaican, a quarter white, and a quarter Mexican.'" As if to provide a physical embodiment of Jewel's hapa background, the audible producers cast Amandla Stenberg, who played the heartbreaking role of young Rue in the film version of The...

Abby Spencer Goes to Bollywood by Varsha Bajaj

24 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Indian, Indian American, Middle Grade Readers, South Asian, South Asian American

Okay, so what are the chances?! Varsha Bajaj's exuberant debut middle grade novel begins with a food allergy that sends her teen protagonist, the titular Abby Spencer, to the ER with an anaphylactic reaction. Talk about eerily prescient – less than 12 hours later, I'm repeating...

We Are Water by Wally Lamb

27 Feb, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Nonethnic-specific

Over the past couple weeks, I've been a bit of an ethnic voyeur, picking up bestselling 'mainstream' titles in search of their APAness. I confess I picked up Wally Lamb's latest purely because I somehow learned the protagonist is named Annie Oh – Oh usually being a Korean...

Flight by Sherman Alexie

24 Feb, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Native American/First Nations/Indigenous Peoples, Young Adult Readers

I spent my last birthday with Sherman Alexie ...

Yokohama Yankee: My Family’s Five Generations as Outsiders in Japan by Leslie Helm

17 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, European, Hapa/Mixed-race, Japanese, Japanese American, Memoir, Nonfiction

'Sprawling' barely begins to describe journalist/editor Leslie Helm's ambitious family history that spans nearly a century-and-a-half, three continents, and the titular five generations of a German Japanese American family with current branches spread throughout the rest of the world. Prompted by the death of his difficult...

Marisol McDonald and the Clash Bash | Marisol McDonald y la fiesta sin igual by Monica Brown, illustrated by Sara Palacios, Spanish translation by Adriana Domínguez

16 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Bilingual, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Latina/o/x, South American

In case you need an introduction to the "unique, different, and one of a kind" Marisol McDonald, check out her 2011 debut here: Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match. Now that she's starring in her second book, I hope that means Marisol's got her own series going, so we...

Splash, Anna Hibiscus! by Atinuke, illustrated by Lauren Tobia

03 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in African, British, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race

As gorgeous as the large snowflakes are where I am, just to be contrary, I'm wishing for sun and surf! I can't remember the last time I went splish-splashing, so clearly I'm overdue! For now, I'll just have to join Anna Hibiscus on her beckoning...

The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride

26 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Audio, Biography, Black/African American, Hapa/Mixed-race, Memoir, Nonfiction

What writer and musician James McBride initially thought might take just six months to write required 14 long years to produce his now-almost-20-year-old debut title, The Color of Water. "Mommy" – McBride never calls her anything else – was never a cooperative subject: she shared her memories in her...

Mira in the Present Tense by Sita Brahmachari

02 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in British, British Asian, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers

On the evening of her 12th birthday, Mira Levenson receives three life-changing (death-defying) gifts: a diary, a charm, and her period. As one-quarter of a school writing class (led by an author named Miss Print!), Mira finds her voice – silently at first through the diary...

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