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by Hiro Arikawa
The white cat with the crooked tail is happy with life as a stray. He is just fine without humans, thank you very much. But when a car hits him, breaking his leg, he thinks of the kind man who leaves him food and lets him sleep on the hood of his van. also available in alternate format(s)
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by Tash Aw
Ah Hock is an ordinary man of simple means. Born and raised in a Malaysian fishing village, he favors stability above all, a preference at odds with his rapidly modernizing surroundings. also available in alternate format(s)
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by Nick Bradley
In Tokyo - one of the world's largest megacities - a straycat is wending her way through the back alleys. And, with each detour, she brushes up against the seemingly disparate lives of the city-dwellers, connecting them in unexpected ways.
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by Kristin Chang
One evening, Ma tells Daughter a story about a tiger spirit who lived in a woman's body, named Hu Gu Po. She hungered to eat children, especially their toes. Soon afterwards, Daughter awakes with a tiger tail. also available in alternate format(s)
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by Leah Franqui
A widow from India travels to California to learn the truth about what happened to the son who was declared dead shortly after he revealed his sexual orientation to their traditional family. also available in alternate format(s)
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by Simon Han As the Chengs come undone, they are forced to confront the hidden pain and secret yearnings that have made them fear not only the world outside but one another.
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by Gish Jen Two years after burying her husband and best friend, 68-year-old Hattie Kong moves to a small New England town where she is joined by a Cambodian family and reunited with an ex-lover before tackling challenges in the form of fundamentalist Christians and struggling family farms. also available in alternate format(s)
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by Meng Jin
Liya grew up with a single mother, the brilliant but troubled physicist Su Lan, who refused to talk about Liya's missing father. Mother and daughter grew increasingly estranged as Su Lan obsessed over her theoretical research. Complicating Liya's search for truth is the fact she was born in Beijing on June 4, 1989, the very night of the government crackdown on the protesters at Tiananmen Square. also available in alternate format(s)
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by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
In a small back alley in Tokyo at a century-old coffee shop rumored to offer patrons the chance to travel back in time, four customers reevaluate their formative life choices.
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by Mieko Kawakami
A boy goes to the supermarket almost every day, just so he can look at the face of the woman who sells sandwiches. She is beautiful to him, and he calls her "Ms Ice Sandwich", and endlessly draws her portrait.
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by Jean Kwok
Untangles the complicated ties binding three wome -- two sisters and their mother -- in one Chinese immigrant family and explores what happens when the eldest daughter disappears, and a series of family secrets emerge. also available in alternate format(s)
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by Chang-rae Lee
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. also available in alternate format(s)
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by Tif Marcelo
A woman travels to the Philippines to reconnect with her long-lost family...and manages to find herself along the way.
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by Syed Masood
As fundamentalism takes root within the social order and the zealots next door attempt to make Islam great again, Anvar Faris' family decides, not quite unanimously, to start life over in California.
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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. also available in alternate format(s)
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by Sayaka Murata
In the convenience store Keiko Furukura finds a predictable world mandated by the store manual, which dictates how the workers should act and what they should say, and she copies her coworkers' style of dress and speech patterns so that she can play the part of a normal person.
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by Ruth L. Ozeki
On the beach of an island off British Columbia's coast, Ruth finds a Hello Kitty lunchbox containing a stack of letters and a red book. The book contains 16-year-old Nao's diary, bound within the covers of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. also available in alternate format(s)
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by Sameer Pandya
First the white members of Raj Bhatt's posh tennis club call him racist. Then his life falls apart. Along the way, he wonders: where does he, a brown man, belong in America?
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by Charles Yu
A deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play. also available in alternate format(s)
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by C Pam Zhang
Newly orphaned children of immigrants, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats of their western mining town, they set off to bury their father in the only way that will set them free from their past.
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