Ginseng and Other Tales from Manila by Marianne Villanueva [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]
02 Mar, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Filipina/o, Filipina/o American, Repost, Short Stories
A collection of stories, mostly set in Manila, inspired by real life stories and newspaper articles, focusing on the desperate citizens of a troubled country trying to survive poverty, government corruption, and loss of...
A collection of short stories, some interrelated, about the experiences of young Filipino American men living displaced lives, caught between their emotional ties to their families back in the Philippines, and their...
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A collection of poignant short stories, mostly about the residents of Lunalilo, Hawai'i, including new picture brides arriving from Japan, young schoolgirls and their dreams, young working women, the silent,...
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...
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...
Mira returns to her native India after graduate school in England, to a new address on Nampally Road, a new lover, and new friends. But the post-colonial India she has returned to is governed...
The dim sum of Asian American classics by the 'bad boys' of APA lit. Considered the seminal anthology of Asian American literature, Aiiieeeee! was the first anthology dedicated solely to American writers of Asian descent. Included...
A follow-up to the seminal
A rich collection of poetry, short stories, visual art, and reviews which together
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