Homebase by Shawn Wong [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]
At 14, fourth-generation Chinese American Rainsford Chan is orphaned. Alone and searching, he recreates his family’s 125-year-long history in the U.S., wandering among his male ancestors, learning their stories and experiencing their lives. But even after...
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...
Born Jyoti, meaning "light," in a small Indian village, she is renamed Jasmine by her husband. Suddenly widowed at 17, Jasmine escapes to America where she begins an odyssey through the country, eventually landing in Iowa...
Young, naive Dimple Dasgupta marries an engineer bound for the U.S. and embarks on a new American adventure. But her expectations – of being married, of being a dutiful wife, of living a glamorous new life...
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...