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A Walk Across the Sun by Corban Addison

02 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Indian, Nonethnic-specific, South Asian

Of the debut novels by non-Asian men writing about Asia and Asian characters that I've read thus far this year, three stand out: Adam Johnson's The Orphan Master’s Son, Brandon Jones' All Woman and Springtime, and most recently this title by Virginia attorney Corban Addison. The one...

Scat and Chomp by Carl Hiaasen

28 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Audio, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers

Mega-bestselling author Carl Hiaasen might write formulaic young adult titles, but he's just so goofball funny, it's hard to put his books down – not to mention the covers are so irresistible, too. Following the massive success of his YA debut Hoot (which also got...

A Wedding in Haiti by Julia Alvarez [in Christian Science Monitor]

26 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Caribbean, Caribbean American, Haitian, Latina/o/x, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost

Neither Julia Alvarez nor her husband Bill can remember exactly when she fell in love with a Haitian boy named Piti. But both distinctly recall the first meeting, which happened in 2001 on one of their many trips to Alvarez’s native Dominican Republic. “[S]hort and...

March Was Made of Yarn: Reflections on the Japanese Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Meltdown, edited by Elmer Luke and David Karashima [in Christian Science Monitor]

06 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Japanese, Japanese American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Translation

March 11, 2011, 14:46 Japan Standard Time: A magnitude-9.0 earthquake lasts six minutes, followed by a 50-foot tsunami that, within 15 minutes, plows inland six miles and causes meltdowns in five nuclear plants. “In one’s wildest imagination, this is beyond conceivable,” write editors Elmer Luke...

The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh

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

When Firdous Bamji – a veteran narrator – reads Amitav Ghosh’s haunting novel in his 'normal' voice, he's hardly memorable. But as soon as he 'becomes' the searching Piya, the sophisticated Kanai ("'[s]ay it to rhyme with Hawaii'"), the contemplative Nirmal, the grounded Nilima, and the many, many...

Saturn Apartments (vol. 3) by Hisae Iwaoka, translated by Tomo Kimura

06 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Middle Grade Readers, Translation, Young Adult Readers

With the debut volume receiving major approval by the American Library Association earlier this year by making YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association)'s list of 2011 Top Ten Great Graphic Novels for Teens, the rest of the Saturn series certainly has quite a bright future on translated shores. Kind and gentle Mitsu...

Eight Days: A Story of Haiti by Edwidge Danticat, illustrated by Alix Delinois

30 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Black/African American, Caribbean, Caribbean American, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Haitian, Haitian American

This has been one tragic week: the deadly Oaxaca, Mexico mudslide, the two Rutgers freshmen whose abusively invasive actions led to the suicide of a third first-year student, the deaths of iconic actor Tony Curtis and director Arthur Penn ...

Author Interview: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni [in Bloomsbury Review]

10 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Indian American, Repost, South Asian American, Young Adult Readers

Sharing Humanity: A Talk with Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni about Her Latest Novel, One Amazing Thing Over the last decades, tragedies – both human-made and those wrought by an ever-angry Mother Nature – seem to be coming at humankind with fast and furious regularity. The latest oil...

One Amazing Thing: A Novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

02 Feb, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Indian American, South Asian American

When the "big one" (for me) hit on October 17, 1989 at 5:04 p.m., I was alone in our house, which sat on Blueberry Hill near the base of the Santa Cruz Mountains. I was barely a few miles from the epicenter of the 7.1...

Not Quite Paradise: An American Sojourn in Sri Lanka by Adele Barker [in Christian Science Monitor]

30 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Memoir, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Repost, Sri Lankan

Three weeks after 9/11, University of Arizona professor Adele Barker arrived in Sri Lanka as a senior Fulbright Scholar to teach Russian literature, feminist literary theory, and American literature to select students at the University of Peradeniya. But her own education about the history and...

Tsunami! by Kimiko Kajikawa, illustrated by Ed Young

16 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Chinese American, Fiction, Japanese, Japanese American

High atop a mountain lives a wealthy, wise, kind old man everyone calls Ojiisan, which means 'grandfather' in Japanese. While the rest of the village gathers to celebrate the annual rice ceremony, Ojiisan chooses to stay home, feeling something is not quite right. His prescience...

Owen & Mzee: The Language of Friendship by Isabella Hatkoff, Craig Hatkoff and Dr. Paula Kahumbu, with photographs by Peter Greste [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Repost

owen-mzeeWritten for an older audience of grade-school children, the recent sequel to Owen & Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship (February 2006) continues the inspiring story through fabulous photographs that follow the remarkable relationship...

A Mama for Owen by Marion Dane Bauer, illustrated by John Butler [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Repost

mama-for-owenA beautifully illustrated, lullaby-like retelling of baby hippo Owen, who lost his entire family pod in the great tsunami of December 2004, and chose a 130-year-old giant tortoise named Mzee, meaning “old man” in Swahili, to...

The Killing Sea by Richard Lewis [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Indonesian, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Southeast Asian, Young Adult Readers

killing-seaAmerican teenager Sarah would much rather be hanging out with her friends back home in an air-conditioned mall than being stuck with her family vacationing in faraway Indonesia. When the massive tsunami of 2004 hits the...

Selvakumar Knew Better by Virginia Kroll, illustrated by Xiaojun Li [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Indian, Nonfiction, Repost, South Asian

selvakumarIn one of the first of numerous books about the devastating December 2004 tsunami that claimed over 280,000 lives, a courageous dog saves a frightened young boy from certain death. Based on a true story, this...

Earth Dragon Awakes: The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 by Laurence Yep [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Chinese American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Repost

earth-dragon-awakesFrom the prolific Laurence Yep, last year’s Laura Ingalls Wilder Award winner for substantial achievement in children’s literature, comes the quickly-moving story of the devastating 1906 earthquake and the inevitable great fire, told through the experiences...

After the Quake: Stories by Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin [in AsianWeek]

26 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese, Repost, Short Stories, Translation

After the QuakeA collection of haunting, surreal, signature-Murakami stories that have at their core a tenuous, frightening connection to the devastating 1995 earthquake in Kobe, Japan. Review: "New and Notable APA Books," <a...

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