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Asian Heritage Reading Challenge: Adult Read a book from the list, or one of your own choosing
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The School for Good Mothers
by Jessamine Chan
After one moment of poor judgment involving her daughter Harriet, Frida Liu falls victim to a host of government officials who will determine if she is a candidate for a Big Brother-like institution that measures the success or failure of a mother's devotion.
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The Naked Tree
by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim
The year is 1951. Twenty-year-old wallflower Lee Kyung ekes out a living at the US Post Exchange, where goods and services of varying stripe are available for purchase. She peddles hand-painted portraits on silk handkerchiefs to soldiers passing through. When a handsome young northern escapee and erstwhile fine artist is hired despite waning demand, an unlikely friendship blossoms into a young woman's first brush with desire against the backdrop of the Korean War at its most devastating.
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Immortal Longings
by Chloe Gong
Princess Calla Tuoleimi plans to take down her family's monarchy but must decide between her kingdom or her new lover, in an adult fantasy epic from the New York Times best-selling author of the YA Secret Shanghai novels.
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The Heart Principle
by Helen Hoang
When she suddenly loses her ability to play the violin, Anna Sun must learn to listen to her heart and falls in love with a man her parents disapprove of, forcing her to choose between meeting expectations and finding happiness in who she really is.
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Natural Beauty
by Ling Ling Huang
Giving up her future as a pianist to take care of her parents, the narrator starts working at a high-end beauty and wellness store in NYC, which affords her entry into a new world of privilege where she discovers, beneath the fancy creams and tinctures, lies a terrible truth threatening to consume her.
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Lunar Love
by Lauren Kung Jessen
Endeavoring to take over her grandmother's matchmaking business, Olivia Huang Christenson is outraged when she learns a new dating app has made her Pó Po's traditional Chinese zodiac approach all about lust and “animal attraction.”
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Age of Vice
by Deepti Kapoor
After a speeding car kills five people late at night in New Delhi, the driver, a shell-shocked servant is unable to explain the series of strange events that lead to the crime.
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Yellowface
by R. F. Kuang
After the death of her literary rival in a freak accident, author June Hayward steals her just-finished masterpiece, sending it to her agent as her own work, but as emerging evidence threatens her success, she discovers just how far she'll go to keep what she thinks she deserves.
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Say You'll Be Mine
by Naina Kumar
Theater teacher and playwright Meghna Rama, when Seth, her best friend and secret crush, gets engaged to another, agrees to let her parents introduce her to a potential match, engineer Karthik Murthy, who offers her a fake engagement to help her through Seth's wedding until an undeniable chemistry emerges between them.
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The Night Eaters. : She Eats the Night Book 1
by Marjorie M. Liu
When their mother Ipo forces them to help her clean up the house next door--a hellish and run-down ruin that was the scene of a grisly murder--twins Milly and Billy are in for a nasty surprise. A night of terror, gore, and supernatural mayhem reveals that there is much more to Ipo and her children than meets the eye.
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All This Could Be Different
by Sarah Thankam Mathews
Follows a young Indian American woman who is grappling with graduating into a recession, working a grueling entry-level corporate job and trying to date Marina, a beautiful dancer who always seems just beyond her grasp.
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In the Time of Our History
by Susanne Pari
Reluctantly returning home to observe “The One Year” after her sister's death, Mitra, banished by her controlling father due to her rebellious nature, confronts hard truths from her and her sister's past that forges an unexpected path forward with her mother, who has always been caught in the middle.
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The Do-Over
by Suzanne Park
A fun rom-com about a young Korean-American woman having to return to college after discovering she's a few credits shy of completing her degree--only to find one of her TAs is her old college boyfriend.
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Partners in Crime
by Alisha Rai
While settling her aunt's affairs with the help of Naveen, a lawyer—and the man she rejected—Mira and Naveen find themselves in a mad dash through Las Vegas, following clues to untangle the mess her family left behind, which puts both their future—and lives—in danger.
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Banyan Moon
by Thao Thai
Three Vietnamese American women mourning the death of the family matriarch recount their lives and childhoods at a crumbling, gothic manor called Banyan House, where the secrets of her grandmother's past come to light.
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Talk to My Back
by Murasaki Yamada
Set in an apartment complex on the outskirts of Tokyo, Murasaki Yamada's Talk to My Back (1981-84) explores the fraying of Japan's suburban middle-class dreams through a woman's relationship with her two daughters as they mature and assert their independence, and with her husband, who works late and sees his wife as little more than a domestic servant.
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Making a Scene
by Constance Wu
In this intimate memoir-in-essays, the Golden Globe Award-nominated star of Crazy Rich Asians and Hustlers, chronicling how she “made it” in Hollywood, offers a behind-the-scenes look at being Asian American in the entertainment industry and the continuing evolution of her identity and influence in the public eye.
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Rise : A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now
by Jeff Yang
A love letter to and for Asian Americans offers a vivid scrapbook of voices, emotions and memories from an era in which our culture was forged and transformed, and a way to preserve both the headlines and the intimate conversations that have shaped our community into who we are today.
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Crying in H Mart
by Michelle Zauner
The Japanese Breakfast indie pop star presents a full-length account of her viral New Yorker essay to share poignant reflections on her experiences of growing up Korean-American, becoming a professional musician and caring for her terminally ill mother.
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