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The Asian American & Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (AA & NH/PI) Experience
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Homeland Elegies: A Novel
by Ayad Akhtar
A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, at its heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home.
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America Is Not the Heart
by Elaine Castillo
How many lives fit in a lifetime? When Hero De Vera arrives in America--haunted by the political upheaval in the Philippines and disowned by her parents--she's already on her third. Her uncle gives her a fresh start in the Bay Area, and he doesn't ask about her past. His younger wife knows enough about the might and secrecy of the De Vera family to keep her head down. But their daughter--the first American-born daughter in the family--can't resist asking Hero about her damaged hands.
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Days of Distraction
by Alexandra Chang
A marginalized Silicon Valley staff writer moves with her boyfriend to a quiet upstate New York town where she confronts the challenges of their interracial relationship and the questions it raises about her heritage.
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Well-Behaved Indian Women
by Saumya Dave
From a compelling new voice in women's fiction comes a mother-daughter story about three generations of Indian and Indian-American women who struggle to define themselves as they pursue their dreams.
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Free Food For Millionaires
by Min Jin Lee
Having become thoroughly indoctrinated in the ways of American life through her Princeton education, Casey Han struggles between the expensive lifestyle she enjoys and the traditional culture to which her Korean immigrant parents desperately cling.
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A Place for Us: A Novel
by Fatima Farheen Mirza
A story of family identity and belonging follows an Indian family through the marriage of their daughter, from the parents' arrival in the United States to the return of their estranged son.
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This Time Will Be Different
by Misa Sugiura
Preferring a simple future to her mother's ambitions for her, a 17-year-old Japanese-American teen discovers her talent for flower arranging before her mother tries to sell the flower shop to the swindlers responsible for their hardships.
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I Hotel
by Karen Tei Yamashita
Beginning in 1968, a motley cast of students, laborers, artists, revolutionaries, and provocateurs from San Francisco's Chinatown make their way through the history of the day, becoming caught in a riptide of politics and passion, clashing ideologies, and personal turmoil that culminate in their effort to save the International Hotel--epicenter of the Yellow Power Movement.
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Interior Chinatown
by Charles Yu
A stereotyped character actor stumbles into the spotlight before uncovering surprising links between his family and the secret history of Chinatown. By the award-winning author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe.
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Memoirs, Essays, & Poetry
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Go Home!
by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan (Editor)
Asian diasporic writers imagine "home" in the twenty-first century through an array of fiction, memoir, and poetry. Both urgent and meditative, this anthology moves beyond the model-minority myth and showcases the singular intimacies of individuals figuring out what it means to belong.
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When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
by Chen Chen
In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family -- the strained relationship between a mother and son, the cost of necessary goodbyes -- all from Asian American, immigrant, and queer perspectives. Holding all accountable, this collection fully embraces the loss, grief, and abundant joy that come with charting one's own path in identity, life, and love.
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All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir
by Nicole Chung
A Korean adoptee who grew up with a white family in Oregon discusses her journey to find her identity as an Asian American woman and a writer after becoming curious about her true origins.
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Missed Translations: Meeting the Immigrant Parents Who Raised Me
by Sopan Deb
Deb's experiences as one of the few minorities covering the Trump campaign, and subsequently as a stand-up comedian, propelled him on a dramatic journey to India to see his father and bridge the emotional distance separating him from those whose DNA he shared.
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Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
by Cathy Park Hong
Asian Americans inhabit a purgatorial status: neither white enough nor black enough, unmentioned in most conversations about racial identity. In the popular imagination, Asian Americans are all high-achieving professionals. But in reality, this is the most economically divided group in the country, a tenuous alliance of people with roots from South Asia to East Asia to the Pacific Islands, from tech millionaires to service industry laborers. How do we speak honestly about the Asian American condition - if such a thing exists? Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively confronts this thorny subject, blending memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the truth of racialized consciousness in America.
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Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
by Mira Jacob
Like many six-year-olds, Mira Jacob's half-Jewish, half-Indian son, Z, has questions about everything. At first they are innocuous enough, but as tensions from the 2016 election spread from the media into his own family, they become much, much more complicated. Trying to answer him honestly, Mira has to think back to where she's gotten her own answers: her most formative conversations about race, color, sexuality, and, of course, love. Written with humor and vulnerability, this deeply relatable graphic memoir is a love letter to the art of conversation--and to the hope that hovers in our most difficult questions.
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Not quite not white : losing and finding race in America
by Sharmila Sen
In a book that is part memoir and part manifesto, the author, who emigrated from India to the U.S. in 1982, shares her funny and candid story of how she discovered that non-whiteness can be the very thing that makes us American. Original.
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This Is One Way to Dance: Essays
by Sejal Shah
Sejal Shah explores culture, language, family, and place. Throughout the collection, Shah reflects on what it means to make oneself visible and legible through writing in a country that struggles with race and maps her identity as an American, South Asian American, writer of color, and feminist.
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Big Little Man: In Search of My Asian Self
by Alex Tizon
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist presents an intimate assessment of the mythology, experience and psyche of the Asian-American male that traces the author's experiences as an immigrant under the constraints of American cultural stereotypes.
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The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays
by Wesley Yang
In the National Magazine Award-winning write’s debut, he presents a collection of razor-sharp essays on race and gender, exploring ugly trends with radical honesty.
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Soon Har's Pick: Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
by Michelle Zauner 782.42166 ZAU
Zauner's unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean-American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up the only Asian-American kid at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother's high expectations of her; and of treasured months spent in her grandmother's tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond over heaping plates of food. It was her mother's diagnosis of terminal pancreatic cancer that forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her. Check out a review from a Bloomingdale staff member on our GoodReads page.
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Asian Americans
Explores Asian American history including such topics as immigration, racial politics, international relations, and cultural innovation.
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Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America
by Vivek Bald
Vivek Bald's meticulous reconstruction reveals a lost history of South Asian sojourning and life-making in the United States. At a time when Asian immigrants were vilified and criminalized, Bengali Muslims quietly became part of some of America's most iconic neighborhoods of color, from Tremé in New Orleans to Detroit's Black Bottom, from West Baltimore to Harlem.
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The Making of Asian America: A History
by Erika Lee
Describes the lasting impact and contributions Asian immigrants have had on America, beginning with sailors who crossed the Pacific in the 16th century, through the ordeal of internment during World War II and to their current status as “model minorities.”
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Island World: A History of Hawai'i and the United States
by Gary Y. Okihiro
Brilliantly mixing geology, folklore, music, cultural commentary, and history, the book reveals Hawaiian history: Hawaiians fighting in the Civil War, sailing on nineteenth-century New England ships, and living in pre-gold rush California.
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