BookDragon Parent/child relationship Tag
She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan [in Library Journal]
30 Jun, by in Adult Readers, Audio, Memoir, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Repost
*STARRED REVIEW Originally published in 2003, Jennifer Finney Boylan’s groundbreaking memoir chronicling her transition from James to Jenny was updated in 2013: "Man, what you don't know could fill a book. I'm unique, however, in that the book filled with the things I don't know is...
The Bones of Grace [Bengal Trilogy, Book 3] by Tahmima Anam [in Christian Science Monitor]
28 Jun, by in Adult Readers, Bangladeshi, Bangladeshi American, British Asian, Fiction, South Asian, South Asian American
'The Bones of Grace': Anam's ‘Bengal trilogy’ comes to a graceful close First, a warning: The Bones of Grace is the final installment in Bangladeshi-born, London-domiciled Tahmima Anam’s “Bengal trilogy.” If the trilogy’s publication history is any indication – A Golden Age in 2008, The Good...
An Unrestored Woman by Shobha Rao [in Library Journal]
27 Jun, by in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Repost, Short Stories, South Asian, South Asian American
*STARRED REVIEW Presenting her dozen stories in six interlinked pairs, Shobha Rao uses the savage 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan as her narrative center, with reverberations moving outward beyond borders, cultures, countries, and generations. A 13-year-old's would-be widowhood spent in a refugee camp is the best...
The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey by Dawn Anahid MacKeen [in Library Journal]
23 Jun, by in Adult Readers, Armenian American, Audio, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost
"[A]s a reporter, I was spending my life telling other people's stories and ignoring my own family's incredible one," Dawn Anahid MacKeen realized at 35. Her 78-year-old Armenian mother was aging, and MacKeen could no longer ignore her calls to "come home." In 2006, MacKeen left...
Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephart
19 Jun, by in Audio, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific
Six days before eighth grade starts, Lily and Dunkin meet for the first time. Lily is still known mostly as Timothy, the boy name he was given at birth – but he's practicing being his true self: a girl named Lily. Dressed in her mother's dress and sandals,...
The Past by Tessa Hadley [in Library Journal]
09 Jun, by in Adult Readers, Audio, British, British Asian, Fiction, Repost
Four siblings gather in their childhood home to determine its future. The oldest is the most distant, unsure she'll even stay the full three weeks they've planned to be there. The middle sister arrives with two children, complaining about her missing husband. The youngest sister...
Where Do We Go When All We Were Is Gone by Sequoia Nagamatsu [in Booklist]
08 Jun, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese, Japanese American, Repost, Short Stories
Wacky and weird, writing and literature professor Sequoia Nagamatsu’s fiction debut is a 12-piece collection that defies easy categorization as an amalgam of sci-fi/fantasy, horror, and black comedy overlaid with ancient-to-contemporary Japanese myth and culture. Nagamatsu’s atypical characters include the “Margaret Mead of the Kaiju [strange...
Author Interview: Lynne Kutsukake [in Bloom]
07 Jun, by in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Canadian, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Fiction, Japanese, Japanese American, Repost
“Enemy aliens” is an all too familiar label, although just who gets thusly labeled seems to change with the political winds. With such an aggravated election year, these two words won’t be disappearing from the media anytime soon. Beyond our northern border, our Canadian neighbors did...
One Child: The Story of China’s Most Radical Experiment by Mei Fong [in Library Journal]
06 Jun, by in Adult Readers, Audio, Chinese, Malaysian, Nonfiction, Repost
China's infamous one-child policy lasted just 35 years. Forced sterilizations, gruesome late-term abortions, an overseas adoption boom, and baby trafficking emerged as by-products of the draconian law. What was touted as a "necessary step in [China's] Herculean efforts to lift the population…from abject poverty" resulted in...
The Key to Extraordinary by Natalie Lloyd [in School Library Journal]
05 Jun, by in Audio, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Repost
*STARRED REVIEW Emma Casey, her brother Topher, and their Granny Blue call the Boneyard Café home. On weekends, Emma conducts tours of the haunted graveyard next door, while Topher warms visitors with his irresistible peach-lavender muffins and famous Boneyard Brew (aka hot chocolate). When their cozy haven...
The Art of Being Normal by Lisa Williamson [in Shelf Awareness]
03 Jun, by in British, Fiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers
While his 8-year-old classmates wrote about wanting to be an actress, prime minister or even Harry Potter, David Piper had a six-word wish for his future: "I want to be a girl." At 14, David's wish has only become more fervent, as his traitorous body...
Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo [in School Library Journal]
02 Jun, by in Audio, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Repost
*STARRED REVIEW Before they became the Three Rancheros, the Little Miss Central Florida Tire competition brought Raymie Clarke, Louisiana Elefante, and Beverly Tapinski together – each for wildly different reasons. Raymie is convinced that when her philandering father, who's run off with the dental hygienist, sees a...
The Land of Forgotten Girls by Erin Entrada Kelly [in School Library Journal]
01 Jun, by in Audio, Fiction, Filipina/o American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost
*STARRED REVIEW Once upon a time, Soledad had two sisters and two loving parents. But tragedy can happen to anyone at any time, and suddenly, Sol and her younger sister, Ming, are transplanted to the other side of the world in a run-down apartment in Louisiana,...
Princess Li | La Princesa Li by Luis Amavisca, illustrated by Elena Rendeiro, translated by Robin Sinclair
26 May, by in Bilingual, Children/Picture Books, European, Fiction, Spanish, Translation
Here's a "Once upon a time"-sort of tale most of us old folks didn't grow up with! Brave new world indeed! Meet Princess Li who lives somewhere "far away in the East" in a gorgeous palace with her King-ly father. Being admired for her great beauty...
Anna and the Swallow Man by Gavriel Savit
25 May, by in Absolute Favorites, Audio, European, Fiction, Jewish, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers
Anna is 7 when her father disappears. In 1939 Krakow, Poland, being Jewish is enough to condemn people to death. When the Swallow Man appears – so named for his ability to conjure and communicate with birds – the unlikely pair reluctantly recognize in each other not...