No-No Boy by John Okada [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]
02 Mar, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese American, Repost
Ichiro Yamada, a second-generation Japanese American, returns to his home city of Seattle after spending two years in an American prison camp and another two years in jail. He returns home a pariah, for...
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...
Jade Snow Wong is the American-born fifth daughter of Chinese immigrants. Growing up in San Francisco’s Chinatown, Jade Snow must come to terms with two diverse worlds: a traditional household which strictly...
Lisa See’s great-great-grandfather arrived in the U.S. from China more than 100 years ago, followed by his son who eventually became one of the most successful Chinese American antiques merchants. The Fong...
A young Korean American woman, trying to come to terms with her strong ethnic heritage, travels to Korea for the first time. There she discovers her grandmother’s legacy of survival,...
At 14, Evelyn Lau was an honors student, the dutiful daughter of a strict, traditional Chinese family. Lau’s parents cannot understand her obsession to become a writer; being published in literary magazines and winning awards only...
A history made up of myth and memory of generations of Chinese American men: from the grandfather who worked on the transcontinental railroad to a father who ran a laundry and danced like Fred...
A young girl grows up in the San Francisco Bay Area divided amidst the stories and myths of her parents’ faraway past in China and her own experiences as an immigrant’s daughter coming of...
The first published anthology of plays by Asian American writers features six diverse plays: Nuit Blanche: A Select View of Earthlings by Ping Chong, The Wash by Philip Kan Gotanda, Tenement Lover: no palm...
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