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No-no Boy
by John Okada
" John Okada was born in Seattle, Washington in 1923. He attended the University of Washington and Columbia University. He served in the US Army in World War II, wrote one novel and died of a heart attack at the age of 47. John Okada died in obscurity believing that Asian America had rejected his work.
In this work, Okada gives the perspective of a no-no boy, a Japanese-American man who would neither denounce his Japanese heritage nor fight for the U.S. Army during WWII. This novel takes place after the main character spent two years in a Japanese internment camp, and two years in prison after saying no when asked to join the U.S. Army. Okada's novel No-No Boy shows the internal and external struggles fought by Japanese-Americans in that time period, be they no-no boys or not. "
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The leavers : a novel
by Lisa Ko
"One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. Set in New York and China, the Leavers is the story of how one boy comes into his own when everything he's loved has been taken away--and how a mother learns to live with the mistakes of her past"
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If I had your face : a novel
by Frances Cha
In Seoul, South Korea, four young women make their way in a world defined by impossibly high standards of beauty, secret salons catering to wealthy men, strict social hierarchies and K-pop fan mania. A first novel.
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My year abroad
by Chang-rae Lee
"From the award-winning author of NATIVE SPEAKER and ON SUCH A FULL SEA, a brilliant, exuberant and entertaining story of a young American whose life is transformed when a Chinese-American businessman suddenly takes him under his wing on a global adventure"
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On earth we're briefly gorgeous : a novel
by Ocean Vuong
A first novel by the award-winning author of Night Sky with Exit Wounds is written in the form of a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read about the impact of the Vietnam war on their family
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The incendiaries
by R. O. Kwon
"A shocking novel of violence, love, faith, and loss, as a young woman at an elite American university is drawn into acts of domestic terrorism by a cult tied to North Korea"
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Apsara engine
by Bishakh Som
"In trans illustrator Bishakh Som's debut work of fiction, questions of gender, the body, and existential conformity are explored over the course of eight speculative and graphic short stories"
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Everything I never told you
by Celeste Ng
A story of the divisions between cultures and the rifts within a family explores the fallout of the drowning death of Lydia Lee, the favorite daughter of a Chinese-American family in 1970s Ohio
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Seventeen syllables and other stories
by Hisaye Yamamoto
" Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories brings together fifteen stories that span Hisaye Yamamoto's forty-year career. It was her first book to be published in the United States. Yamamoto's themes include the cultural conflicts between the first generation, the Issei, and their children, the Nisei; coping with prejudice; and the World War II internment of Japanese-Americans."
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The refugees
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer presents a new collection of stories, written over a 20-year period, which explores questions of home, family, immigration, the American experience and the relationships and desires for self-fulfillment that define our lives. Reprint. A New York Times Editors' Choice.
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Severance
by Ling Ma
A survivor of an apocalyptic plague maintains a blog about a decimated Manhattan before joining a motley group of survivors to search for a place to rebuild, a goal that is complicated by an unscrupulous group leader.
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Sansei and sensibility
by Karen Tei Yamashita
Generations of Japanese Americans merge with Jane Austen’s characters in this clever collection of stories that traverse class, race, and gender, bringing wit and humor into our modern world. Original.
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Interior Chinatown
by Charles Yu
Every day Chinatown resident Willis Wu enters the Golden Palace restaurant as a bit player in a theatrical production, but after stumbling into the spolight he is suddenly launched into a world that shows him the history of China and the legacy of his own family and what it means for his place in America
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The hidden girl and other stories
by Ken Liu
The award-winning author of The Grace of Kings presents a selection of 17 short science fiction and fantasy stories from the past five years that includes an excerpt from the third entry in his Dandelion Dynasty series. 50,000 first printing.
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The empress of salt and fortune
by Nghi Vo
"With the heart of an Atwood tale and the visuals of a classic Asian period drama The Empress of Salt and Fortune is a tightly and lushly written narrative about empire, storytelling, and the anger of women.
A young royal from the far north is sent south for a political marriage. Alone and sometimes reviled, she has only her servants on her side. This evocative debut chronicles her rise to power through the eyes of her handmaiden, at once feminist high fantasy and a thrilling indictment of monarchy."
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Home remedies : stories
by Xuan Juliana Wang
A debut collection of 12 stories reflecting the current freedom-seeking generation of Chinese youth ranges from the experiences of a first-generation Chinese-American family to the pressures on a pair of divers at the Beijing Olympics.
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The flower drum song
by C. Y. Lee
Living in San Francisco's Chinatown, with his widowed father, who mourns the loss of the old way of life in China, and younger brother, who just wants to be a normal American teenager, Wang Ta searches for true love and the American dream, in a classic novel of the Chinese-American experience. Reprint.
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Passage west : a novel
by Rishi Reddi
Follows a family of Indian sharecroppers at the onset of World War I, revealing a little-known part of California history. A first novel. 40,000 first printing.
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Good talk : a memoir in conversations
by Mira Jacob
Presents a graphic novel memoir about American identity as it has shaped her interracial family in the aftermath of the 2016 elections
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Sour heart : stories
by Jenny Zhang
"A debut collection of stories that plunge readers into the tender and chaotic hearts of adolescent girls growing up in New York City, from celebrated poet and National Magazine Award nominee Jenny Zhang"
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