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Map of the Invisible World by Tash Aw [in Bloomsbury Review]

24 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, British Asian, Fiction, Malaysian, Repost, Southeast Asian

Five years ago, Taipei-born Malaysian British Tash Aw landed in the media spotlight with The Harmony Silk Factory, complete with public speculations about an allegedly enormous debut advance. Decorated with multiple important prizes, including Commonwealth and Whitbread first novel awards, Aw’s Factory earned him both...

Yarn: Remembering the Way Home by Kyoko Mori

19 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Japanese, Japanese American, Memoir, Nonfiction

This weekend, I get to meet Kyoko Mori in livetime [I'm scheduled to moderate an Asian American literary panel on Sunday morning as part of the first-ever Amnesty International Human Rights Art Festival, sponsored by the brand-new Asian American Literary Review). Anyone can join me,...

The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn, illustrated by Ruth E. Harper and Nancy M. Leak

16 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific

It's no wonder that this kiddie classic by longtime DC-area local Audrey Penn has sold some 4.5 million copies! I can proudly say I've added more than a few copies to that total, as it's one of those incredibly appropriate stories for an experience that every...

Chester Raccoon and the Acorn Full of Memories by Audrey Penn, illustrated by Barbara L. Gibson

16 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific

The latest in what has become practically a franchise – Audrey Penn's Kissing Hand series – deals with an extremely difficult subject ...

Pearl of China by Anchee Min [in Library Journal]

15 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost

Min opens her latest with guilty sobs recalling her "brainwashed" teenaged self in 1970s China, when she was forced to denounce Pulitzer and Nobel prize-winning writer Pearl S. Buck to Madame Mao. That guilt clearly drove Min (Red Azalea) to write this "based on the...

My Father Knows the Names of Things by Jane Yolen, illustrated by Stéphane Jorisch

14 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific

With over 300 titles to her name, Jane Yolen simply couldn't be more prolific! Here she teams up with the whimsically fantastic illustrator Stéphane Jorisch who captures Yolen's delight-filled father/daughter adventures as they meet dogs walking their owner, paint a room seven shades of blue, get...

Prime Baby by Gene Luen Yang

10 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers

Gene Luen Yang, who made publishing history as the author of the first graphic novel ever to be nominated for a National Book Award, returns with an irresistible, hilarious little book that takes sibling rivalry to whole new heights. First serialized in The New York...

Snakes Can’t Run: A Mystery by Ed Lin

05 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction

Timing is everything, right? Last weekend, I had our teenage daughter and a friend of hers wandering NYC, and we happened to do the fabulous, downloadable Soundwalk/Chinatown walking tour narrated by Chinatown native Jami Gong – all three of us were attached to one iPod...

It Is Well with My Soul: The Extraordinary Life of a 106-Year-Old Woman by Ella Mae Johnson with Patricia Mulcahy [in Christian Science Monitor]

02 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Black/African American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

“Some of the things in this book happened a hundred years ago...

Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale by Belle Yang

02 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Memoir, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

Already lauded for her exquisitely illustrated family stories – Baba: A Return to China Upon My Father’s Shoulders, The Odyssey of a Manchurian, as well as numerous children’s titles – Yang debuts her first-ever graphic memoir, a multi-layered creation that details her own story of...

Secret Asian Man: The Daily Days by Tak Toyoshima

31 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese American, Young Adult Readers

Art director for an alternative city paper by day, comics artist whenever he has the time, SAM (Secret Asian Man, yes!) – not so unlike his own creator Tak Toyoshima – fights stereotypes when he can, makes biting commentaries when frustrated, and generally tries to...

Tell Us We’re Home by Marina Budhos

30 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in European, Fiction, Indian American, Latina/o/x, Middle Grade Readers, South Asian American, Young Adult Readers

In a tony New Jersey suburb, artistic Jaya, outspoken Lola, and shy Maria find an instant bond with each other, recognizing their outsider experiences of being the daughters of immigrant mothers who work as housekeepers and nannies for the wealthy families of their eighth-grade classmates. Jaya...

City of Spies by Susan Kim and Laurence Klavan, artwork by Pascal Dizin

29 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Jewish, Korean American, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific

Young Evelyn gets dumped at her surprised aunt’s posh NYC penthouse so her neglectful father can take yet another honeymoon with the latest young wife. Evelyn’s managed to escape her lonely life by creating her very own manga series, “The Amazing Adventures of Zirconium Man...

Hello Kitty Must Die by Angela S. Choi

27 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction

What a fast-paced, can’t put-down, biting, over-the-top debut! You'll have to read it for the body count alone ...

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick

19 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Korean, Nonfiction, North Korean

Barbara Demick, currently the Beijing bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, spent five years as Seoul's bureau chief where she had unprecedented access to North Koreans. Her interviews, which began in 2001, eventually became Nothing to Envy, a mind-boggling, heartbreaking, surreal-ly humanizing portrait of six...

Half Life by Roopa Farooki

18 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, British Asian, Fiction, Pakistani, South Asian

I don't know why the galley's back cover touts "shades of Slumdog Millionaire and The Namesake" because this book has no overlaps with either of those titles, much less their authors, or even locations! Really, not all brown people look alike – authors or their characters! Slumdog...

Three Sisters by Bi Feiyu [in Library Journal]

15 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese, Fiction, Repost, Translation

Although the cover of Bi's novel displays a character for "triple happiness" – ostensibly representing the eponymous three sisters – readers shouldn't expect a happily-ever-after tale. After seven daughters, Party Secretary Wang sees his self-esteem redeemed with the birth of a son. Firstborn Yumi, the de facto...

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

27 Feb, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, African, Audio, Fiction, Young Adult Readers

Heartbreak and hope are two words that define this 1948 classic by one of South Africa's most important writers. I picked it up recently because it's on our daughter's middle school reading list and while I vaguely remembered some of the plot, I realized I...

Only One Year by Andrea Cheng, illustrated by Nicole Wong

23 Feb, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Chinese American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers

Sisters Sharon and Mary are shocked when their mother tells them that their two-year-old younger brother, Di Di, will be sent to China to live for a year with their grandparents. "'A whole year?'" they ask incredulously. Mama explains that the girls are older, heading...

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer

18 Feb, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, African, Audio, Memoir, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

For most of the last hour (of 10+ hours) of listening to an effusive, lilting Chike Johnson read to me William Kamkwamba's phenomenal life story, I wore the goofiest grin on my face. Surely fellow drivers passing me by wondered what sort of gleeful idiot...

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