Mother/daughter relationship Archives - Page 14 of 36

Everlasting Nora by Marie Miranda Cruz [in Booklist]

12 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Fiction, Filipina/o, Filipina/o American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American

If the middle-grade Filipino American market had an audio representative, Amielynn Abellera would be the reigning voice. She’s already narrated two of Newbery Medal-winning Filipino American Erin Entrada Kelly’s three MG titles, and she’s quite the energetic cipher for debut novelist Marie Miranda Cruz’s feisty...

The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters by Balli Kaur Jaswal [in Booklist]

04 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, British, British Asian, Fiction, Indian, Repost, South Asian

Sita Kaur Shergill is dying of cancer. She has “had enough of this ghastly life,” but before she goes, she leaves epistolary final wishes that her three British-born daughters journey together to India “on [her] behalf.” Her detailed itinerary is exacting, from serving others to...

His Favorites by Kate Walbert [in Booklist]

01 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost

Steely and controlled, narrator Gabra Zackman embodies a young woman’s harrowing crisis, ensuring not a single moment of the brief production can be ignored. At 15, Jo’s unremarkable life as just another teen in her suburban Maryland town is forever shattered when she kills her best friend...

Sadie by Courtney Summers [in Booklist]

13 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Young Adult Readers

*STARRED REVIEW “It begins, as so many stories do, with a dead girl” promises a new serialized podcast, created and hosted by New York journalist West McCray. Pursuing the discovery of a 13-year-old’s corpse, McCray produces the eight-part “The Girls,” “about family, about sisters, and the...

This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga [in Booklist]

06 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, African, Audio, Fiction, Repost

Of Dangarembga’s award-winning, semi-autobiographical Tambudzai Sigauke trilogy, only this finale gets an audio adaptation. Tambu struggled to be educated amid Zimbabwe’s decades-long civil war in Nervous Conditions (winner of the 1989 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize) and survived a convent education in The Book of Not (2006). Here, Tambu is a not-so-young...

First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story by Huda Al-Marashi [in Booklist]

05 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Arab, Arab American, Audio, Iraqi, Iraqi American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost

Writer Huda Al-Marashi and narrator Jeed Saddy make their respective debuts in a captivating memoir about a marriage that’s not so much arranged but destined. Al-Marashi is 6 when she meets Hadi, the son of family friends. She’s 9 as she watches him pretend-wed her 4-year-old...

Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao’s Revolution by Helen Zia [in Christian Science Monitor]

24 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese, Chinese American, Nonfiction, Repost

Last Boat Out of Shanghai has four stories at once personal and universal As the child of two refugees, Helen Zia can speak to the effects of displacement, separation, and the personal costs of survival, adaptation, and reinvention. As an advocate for Asian American and other minority communities,...

Zenobia by Morten Dürr, illustrated by Lars Horneman [in Booklist]

22 Jan, by SIBookDragon in European, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Translation, Young Adult Readers

Vast open water. An overcrowded boat. A horrific storm. A girl plunges backwards into the violent waves. Wishing, dreaming of rescue, Amina conjures happier moments playing hide-and-seek. “I am right here, Mama,” she thinks. She remembers making dolmas, salty like seawater – and tears. She...

The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See [in Booklist]

14 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction, Korean, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW They meet at age 7. Young-sook and her mother are working their garden; Mi-ja crouches among the sweet-potato plants, desperate to eat. They are on Korea’s Jeju Island, “known for its Three Abundances of wind, stones, and women, it was also acknowledged for lacking...

Five More to Go: Chigozie Obioma’s An Orchestra of Minorities [in The Booklist Reader]

08 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, African, Black/African American, Fiction, Lists, Repost, Young Adult Readers

An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma With the 2015 debut of The Fisherman, The New York Times rejoiced: “Chigozie Obioma truly is the heir to Chinua Achebe.” Almost four years later, his sophomore title – hitting shelves today – doesn’t disappoint. The story seems familiarly simple: a man...

The White Book by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith [in Library Journal]

03 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Repost, Translation

White, not black, is the color of mourning in Han Kang’s home country of South Korea, as well as other parts of Asia. This latest from Han, whose The Vegetarian was the 2016 Man Booker International Prize winner, is a meditative exploration of the limitless...

My Name is Venus Black by Heather Lloyd

28 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers

Venus Black gets straight As, has never gotten drunk, smoked pot, or skipped a class. She’s also a 13-year-old murderer, sent to juvenile lock-up for shooting her stepfather. Within days, her younger half-brother Leo – “[he] has what [their mother] Inez calls ‘developmental issues’” –...

The Science of Breakable Things by Tae Keller

11 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Korean American, Middle Grade Readers

In one of those “dorky old composition notebooks,” seventh-grader Natalie is “supposed to observe something that interests us and spend all year applying the scientific process to our capital-Q Question.” While she struggles to formulate that ideal Q, Natalie fills the pages with much more...

Not Our Kind by Kitty Zeldis [in Booklist]

07 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Jewish, Nonethnic-specific, Repost

Class, gender, and religious differences in post-WWII Manhattan drive this debut novel from the pseudonymous Zeldis in which two worlds literally collide in the opening chapter. Caught in a fender bender, Eleanor Moskowitz and Patricia Bellamy emerge from their respective taxis in a rare chance...

A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum [in Booklist]

20 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Palestinian, Palestinian American, Repost

“No matter how many books you’ve read, no one has ever told you a story like this one.” The prologue’s emphathic statement is not exactly accurate. Tara Westover’s Educated (2018) and Anouk Markovits’ I Am Forbidden (2012) feature women trapped by religion and culture who...

Mostly White by Alison Hart [in Booklist]

13 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Black/African American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Native American/First Nations/Indigenous Peoples, Repost

Blood ties spanning almost a century connect Emma, an Indian Residential School runaway, to her great-granddaughter, Ella, a struggling actor. In 1890 Maine, Emma – born to a Passamaquoddy Native father and an African American mother, is violently uprooted and trapped in a tortuous school...

Five More to Go: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s Friday Black [in The Booklist Reader]

09 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, African, Black/African American, Caribbean, Caribbean American, Chinese American, Fiction, Lists, Repost, Short Stories

Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s dozen stories are disturbingly spectacular, made even more so by how he magnifies and exposes the truth. On first reading, the collection might register as speculative fiction, but current headlines about racism, injustice, consumerism, and senseless violence prove...

Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough [in Library Journal]

08 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, European, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Verse Novel/Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

*STARRED REVIEW At 12, Artemisia Gentileschi loses her mother, but not before "Prudentia Montone spent/ the last of her strength/ to burn into [Artemisia's] mind/ the tales of women/ no one else would/ think to tell" – including biblical heroines Susannah and Judith, who thwarted male...

All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung [in Christian Science Monitor]

01 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Korean, Korean American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost

'All You Can Ever Know' is a sensitive examination of transracial adoption Here’s a memoir by a transracial adoptee about being a transracial adoptee – and unless you're a transracial adoptee yourself, you're probably thinking, “eh, I'll pass.” And that would surely be a mistake. Because...

Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi [in School Library Journal]

25 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Fiction, Korean American, Repost, Uncategorized, Young Adult Readers

Narrators Joy Osmanski and Jacques Roy prove to be convincing partners in propelling two awkward misfits toward each other. Osmanski’s Penny Lee is slightly detached. UT-Austin might be less than 80 miles away, but 18-year-old Penny imagines she’s headed for a whole new world –...

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