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Frontiers of Love by Diana Chang [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

02 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Repost

Frontiers of LoveThe story of a group of young, idealistic friends in Japanese-occupied Shanghai in 1945. Caught between an ancient culture overwhelmed by Western colonialism, each of the friends must try and find his...

The Loom and Other Stories by R.A. Sasaki [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

02 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese American, Repost, Short Stories

Loom and Other StoriesNine interrelated stories make up this debut collection, mostly about the San Francisco-based Terasaki family, living with the legacy of the Japanese American internment and the devastation of World War...

Once, A Lotus Garden and Other Stories by Jessica K. Saiki [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

02 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Hawaiian, Japanese American, Repost, Short Stories

Once, A Lotus GardenA 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,...

No-No Boy by John Okada [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

02 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese American, Repost

No-No BoyIchiro 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...

Legends From Camp by Lawson Fusao Inada [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

01 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Japanese American, Poetry, Repost

Legends from CampPoetry collection by an award-winning, third-generation Japanese American. As a child, Inada was interned during World War II with his parents at Jerome Camp in Arkansas and Amache Camp in Colorado. In...

The River of Heaven by Garrett Hongo [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

01 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Japanese American, Poetry, Repost

River of HeavenAward-winning second poetry collection, which draws on Hongo’s diverse background, filled with images of Hawaiian volcanoes, war-torn battlefields, a high school classroom, Chinatown back alleys, and California beaches. Review: "Asian American...

Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family by Yoshiko Uchida [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

01 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Japanese American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Desert ExileThe autobiographical account of a second-generation Japanese American woman growing up in Berkeley, California, and her family’s internment experiences at Camp Topaz during World War II. During World War II, some 120,000 Americans of Japanese...

Nisei Daughter by Monica Sone [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

01 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Japanese American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Nisei DaughterThe autobiograhical account of a second-generation Japanese American woman growing up in Seattle in the 1920s through the '40s, her family’s incarceration during World War II in Idaho, and her new life as a...

Citizen 13660 by Miné Okubo [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

01 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Japanese American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Citizen 13660The autobiographical account, told through sketches and text, of a second-generation Japanese American woman, who was reduced to Citizen Number 13660 and incarcerated during World War II, first at the Tanforan Assembly Center in...

Home Was the Land of Morning Calm: The Saga of a Korean American Family by K. Connie Kang [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

01 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Korean American, Memoir, Repost

Home Was the Land of Morning CalmThe saga of one Korean family, interwoven with the country’s turbulent history, from 1900 to the present. The Kang clan, once a powerful North...

Still Life With Rice: A Young American Woman Discovers the Life and Legacy of Her Korean Grandmother by Helie Lee [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

01 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Korean American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost

Still Life with RiceA young Korean American woman, trying to come to terms with her strong ethnic heritage, travels to Korea for the first time. There she discovers her grandmother’s legacy of survival,...

Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

01 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Japanese American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Farewell to ManzanarJeanne Wakatsuki was just 7 years old when Pearl Harbor was bombed. Within months, her father was taken away by the U.S. government. Soon thereafter, the rest of the Wakatsuki family was...

Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America’s Concentration Camps by Michi Nishiura Weglyn [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

01 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Japanese American, Nonfiction, Repost

Years of InfamyIn this groundbreaking historical work, Michi Weglyn relies on careful research and documentation to reveal the abuses of power in the highest reaches of the U.S. government –...

Baba: A Return to China Upon My Father’s Shoulders by Belle Yang + Author Profile [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Chinese American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Taiwanese American, Young Adult Readers

BabaBelle Lettres For Belle Yang, creating Baba: A Return to China Upon My Father’s Shoulders, a lyrical new book filled with impressive pictures and musical prose, was somewhat akin to a rescue...

Author Profile: Michiko Nishiura Weglyn [in Notable Asian Americans]

01 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Japanese American, Nonfiction, Repost

Years of InfamyMichi Weglyn's first career, which she began at the age of 21, catapulted her to fame as the first nationally prominent Japanese American costume designer in the United States. By the 1950s,...

Author Profile: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston [in Notable Asian Americans]

01 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Japanese American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Farewell to ManzanarOne day in 1971, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's nephew came to visit. He was taking a sociology course at the University of California at Berkeley and wanted to know more about the concentration...

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