An  immigrant father and his son search for belonging -- in post-Trump America, and with each other.

 

Accustomed to an heir-and-spare dynamic with her elder sister, June, who got a full scholarship to Columbia and a hedge fund job, Jayne's existential insecurity crystallizes upon learning the shocking news that June has cancer. 

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 When she agrees to become a ghost bride for the wealthy Lim family's son, who recently died under mysterious circumstances, Li Lan must dive into a shadowy parallel world of the Chinese afterlife to find the truth.

 

University sophomore Miwako Sumida has hanged herself, leaving those closest to her reeling. In the months before her suicide, she was hiding away in a remote mountainside village, but what, or whom, was she running from? T

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Haunting and intense, The Incendiaries is a fractured love story that explores what can befall those who lose what they love most.

As he picks up fares that take him through Tokyo's night streets, offering him glimpses into the lives of his passengers, an unnamed Tokyo taxi driver can't escape his own nihilistic thoughts. Almost without meaning to, he puts himself in harm's way; he can't stop daydreaming of suicide, envisioning himself returning to the earth in what soon become terrifying blackout episodes. 

17 people die of cyanide poisoning at a large party in an ancient castle city on the coast of the Sea of Japan. The only survivor is the teenage daughter Hisako, blind, beautiful, admired by all, but soon suspected of masterminding the crime.

 

Told through the point of view of a middle schooler who's uprooted from the city by her unambitious father, newly appointed the police chief of a small fishing village

 Ensconced within a Hudson Valley retreat where expectant birth mothers are given luxurious accommodations and lucrative rewards to produce perfect babies, a Filipino immigrant is forced to choose between a life-changing payment and the outside world.

 

Despite idyllic summers in the Catskills, and gatherings with glamorous family friends, there is a sadness that emanates from the Chatterjee residence, a deep well of sorrow stemming from the racism of American society.  

 

Spanning a remarkable range of cultural milieus, this novel tells the intersecting stories of three Indian immigrants living in a Cleveland suburb.

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A covert industry has grown up around the wakaresaseya (literally "breaker-upper"), a person hired by one spouse to seduce the other in order to gain the advantage in divorce proceedings. When Sato hires Kaitaro, a wakaresaseya agent, to have an affair with his wife, Rina, he assumes it will be an easy case.

Finally joining their father in America, Ajay and Birju enjoy their new, extraordinary life until tragedy strikes, leaving one brother incapacitated and the other practically orphaned in this strange land.

 Japan, after suffering from a massive irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world. Children are so weak they can barely stand or walk: the only people with any get-go are the elderly.

 In a single year, my father left us twice. The first time, to end his marriage, and the second, when he took his own life.

 

by Susie Yang
 

Ivy has worked long and hard to be the right woman for Gideon. But just as they (finally!)  begin dating, another man from Ivy's past appears, and he has his own set of rules. Ivy soon has a foot in two vastly different worlds. The question is: Which will she choose? 

 

Yoshie is haunted by nightmares in which her father is looking for the phone he left behind on the day he died, or on which she is trying -- unsuccessfully -- to call him. Is her dead father trying to communicate a message to her through these dreams?

Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, his life is tied by a series of coincidences to the Imperial family and has been shaped at every turn by modern Japanese history. But his life story is also marked by bad luck, and now, in death, he is unable to rest, doomed to haunt the park near Ueno Station in Tokyo.

Kyung Cho's home is worth less money than he owes. A tenure-track professor, he and his wife, Gillian, have always lived beyond their means. Now their decisions have caught up with them.

Surviving by her wits alone, Lotus charges headlong into the neon lights of Shenzhen, determined to pull herself out of the gutter and decide her own fate.