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Guantánamo Voices: True Accounts from the World’s Most Infamous Prison by Sarah Mirk [in Booklist]

02 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW For this project 10 years in the making, journalist/writer Sarah Mirk gathered a diverse dozen comic artists; fellow journalist/writer Omar El Akkad (American War, 2017), who provides the searing introduction; and historian/journalist Andy Worthington (The Guantánamo Files, 2007), who contributes fact-checked accuracy. Together, this creative village...

Then the Fish Swallowed Him by Amir Ahmadi Arian [in Shelf Awareness}

07 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Iranian, Iranian American, Persian, Persian American, Repost

Prolifically published in his native Farsi, Amir Ahmadi Arian makes his English-language debut with Then the Fish Swallowed Him, a disturbingly irresistible novel exposing the invalidity of truth and lies under a despotic regime. Growing up in a volatile, politically fractured society and losing both parents...

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones [in Library Journal]

18 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Black/African American, Fiction, Repost

Shoved onto the asphalt by police, lying "parallel like burial plots" next to her husband Roy in a motel parking lot, Celestial recalls her wedding proclamation: "What God has brought together, let no man tear asunder." But an American marriage – especially if a black...

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

29 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Audio, Fiction, Latina/o/x, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers

What a year Benjamin Alire Sáenz has had: in the adult market, he made literary history last May as the first Latino writer to win the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his seven-story collection, Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club; his latest young adult title...

Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison by Piper Kerman

01 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Memoir, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction

My older teenager tells me the series of the same name is what 'everyone' is watching: "It's the new favorite show," she insists. So when I found the book ("there's a book?" the daughter asks with surprise; there's almost always a book first!) available to...

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Guantánamo Voices: True Accounts from the World’s Most Infamous Prison by Sarah Mirk [in Booklist]

Then the Fish Swallowed Him by Amir Ahmadi Arian [in Shelf Awareness}

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones [in Library Journal]

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison by Piper Kerman

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