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Celebrating Asian Heritage
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We, The Survivors
by Tash Aw F AW
A man from a Malaysian fishing village who has completed a sentence for murder and a privileged young journalist whose life has taken an unexpected turn confront the systems of power, race and class that drove the former into violence.
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Useful Phrases for Immigrants: Stories
by May-Lee Chai F CHA
Eight innovative, timely stories illuminate the hopes and fears of Chinese immigrants and their descendants. Publishers Weekly says "Chai thoughtfully depicts the loneliness of displacement, combining empathy and nuance to craft stories that are compassionate, illuminating, and sometimes brilliant."
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Second Sister
by Ho-Kei Chan F CHA
After her school age sister commits suicide, Siu-Man refuses to believe there was no foul play and contacts a hacker known as N. to help her in this new novel from the internationally acclaimed author of The Borrowed.
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Days of Distraction
by Alexandra Chang F CHA
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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Waste Tide
by Qiufan Chen SCI CHE
An exploited lowest-caste factory worker, her ruthless employer, an American corporate representative and his heritage-seeking translator intersect when a dark futuristic virus is unleashed on a major Chinese technological site, triggering a war between the classes.
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All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir
by Nicole Chung 362.734 CHU
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 a mother herself, curious about her true origins.
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Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors
by Sonali Dev F DEV
A neurosurgeon from a politically ambitious immigrant family clashes with a talented dessert chef who would prove he is more than his pedigree.
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The Shape of Family
by Shilpi Somaya Gowda F GOW
A headstrong college student from a once-ambitious family navigates an unspeakable tragedy before her search for identity leads her down a dark path that is complicated by her parents’ secrets. By the best-selling author of Secret Daughter.
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The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters
by Balli Kaur Jaswal F JAS
Making an obligatory pilgrimage to the Golden Temple in Amritsar to carry out their mother's final rites, three estranged British-Punjabi sisters make unexpected discoveries about why their mother was forced to leave India.
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Little Gods
by Meng Jin F JIN
A brilliant physicist gives birth alone one night in Beijing. When Su Lan dies unexpectedly 17 years later, her daughter Liya inherits the silences and contradictions of her mother's life. Liya, who grew up in America, takes her mother's ashes to China--to her, an unknown country. In a territory inhabited by the ghosts of the living and the dead, Liya's memories are joined by those of two others: Zhu Wen, the woman last to know Su Lan before she left China, and Yongzong, the father Liya has never known. In this way a portrait of Su Lan emerges: an ambitious scientist, an ambivalent mother, and a woman whose relationship to her own past shapes and ultimately unmakes Liya's own sense of displacement.
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Searching for Sylvie Lee
by Jean Kwok F KWO
The best-selling author of Girl in Translation draws on a personal family tragedy in the story of three women from a Chinese immigrant family who navigate complicated secrets when an elder daughter goes missing.
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The Downstairs Girl
by Stacey Lee YA F LEE
When the advice column she secretly writes becomes wildly popular, a young lady’s maid uses her influence to question her society’s fixed ideas about race and gender. By the award-winning author of Outrun the Moon.
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That Time I Loved You
by Carrianne Leung F LEU
A U.S. debut by the author of The Wondrous Woo finds the residents of a new subdivision in 1970s Toronto torn by a rash of suicides that are linked to dark undercurrents of infidelity, racism and hidden abuse.
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The Marriage Clock
by Zara Raheem F RAH
Given three months by her traditional parents to find a husband or agree to an arranged marriage, a Muslim-American woman with dreams of Bollywood romance starts dating in hopes of finding love on her own terms.
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Then, Now, Always
by Mona Shroff ROM SHR
When her daughter, Samantha, gets into legal trouble, Maya Rao, out of desperation, calls Samantha’s father, a lawyer, for help—the only problem is that he doesn’t know he has a daughter, in this sweet reunion romance set in New York.
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They Called Us Enemy
by George Takei GN YA F TAK
The iconic actor and activist presents a graphic memoir detailing his experiences as a child prisoner in the Japanese-American internment camps of World War II, reflecting on the hard choices his family made in the face of legalized racism.
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Death Notice
by Haohui Zhou M ZHO
An elite police squad hunts a manipulative mastermind out to publically execute criminals the law cannot reach. Death Notice is an explosive, page-turning thriller filtered through a vibrant cultural lens. Zhou Haohui expertly adds an exhilarating new perspective to the twists and tropes of the genre all fans love, making for a uniquely propulsive and entertaining read.
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