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#ownvoices Fiction by Asian American and Pacific Islander Authors
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How much of these hills is gold
by C Pam Zhang
Two orphaned Chinese immigrant siblings flee the threats of their gold rush mining town across an unforgiving landscape where their survival is tested by family secrets, sibling rivalry and disparate goals. A first novel. Won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature for adult fiction and was long-listed for the Booker Prize.
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Gold Diggers
by Sanjena Sathian
A satirical coming-of-age story follows the experiences of an Indian-American teen in the Bush-era Atlanta suburbs, who joins his crush’s plot to use an ancient alchemical potion to meet high parental expectations, triggering devastating consequences.
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The committed
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
A sequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Sympathizer finds the unnamed “man of two minds” and his blood brother dealing drugs in 1980s Paris, where he navigates the worlds of privileged clients while trying to reconcile two politically polarized friends.
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The city of good death : a novel
by Priyanka Champaneri
A debut novel of family and love, memory and ritual and the ways in which we honor the living and the dead that takes readers inside India’s holy city of Banaras follows the lives of inseparable cousins Pramesh and Sagar, who live in a death hostel.
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Burnt sugar : A Novel
by Avni Doshi
Shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, a literary debut novel set in India is about mothers and daughters, obsession and betrayal. "In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned her loveless marriage to join an ashram, endured a brief stint as a beggar (mostly to spite her affluent parents), and spent years chasing after a disheveled, homeless 'artist' - all with her young child in tow. Now she is forgetting things, and her grown-up daughter is faced with the task of caring for a woman who never cared for her."
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White ivy : a novel
by Susie Yang
Years after she is sent away from Boston to China for shoplifting, a conflicted Chinese-American woman reconnects with her golden-boy childhood crush before a ghost from the past threatens her ambitions. A first novel.
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Pizza girl : a novel
by Jean Kyoung Frazier
Delivering pizzas in suburban Los Angeles, a pregnant teen mourning the death of her father becomes obsessed with a middle-aged stay-at-home mom who comes to depend on weekly pizza deliveries for her son’s happiness.
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A burning
by Megha Majumdar
An opportunistic gym teacher and a starry-eyed misfit find the realization of their ambitions tied to the downfall of an innocent Muslim girl who has been wrongly implicated in a terrorist attack. A first novel.
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If I had your face : a novel
by Frances Cha
In Seoul, South Korea, four young women make their way in a world defined by impossibly high standards of beauty, secret salons catering to wealthy men, strict social hierarchies and K-pop fan mania. A first novel.
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Amnesty : a novel
by Aravind Adiga
A young illegal immigrant in Sydney, Australia is forced to choose between risking deportation and reporting the murder of a female client. By the award-winning author of Selection Day.
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Interior Chinatown
by Charles Yu
Every day Chinatown resident Willis Wu enters the Golden Palace restaurant as a bit player in a theatrical production, but after stumbling into the spolight he is suddenly launched into a world that shows him the history of China and the legacy of his own family and what it means for his place in America.
Available on Overdrive and Axis 360
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Little Gods
by Meng Jin
A new novel explores the complex web of grief, memory, time, physics, history and selfhood in the immigrant experience, and the complicated bond between daughters and mothers. A first novel.
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The dating plan
by Sara Desai
A characteristically obedient Indian-American software engineer, determined to avoid a loveless arranged marriage by her traditional parents, enlists a childhood crush, required to marry in order to secure his inheritance, to be her decoy fiancé.
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Accidentally Engaged
by Farah Heron
Determined to marry for love in spite of her parents’ interfering matchmaking schemes, Reena Manji pretends to be engaged to a neighbor in her father’s employ in the hopes of winning a couples’ cooking competition.
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The boy toy
by Nicola Marsh
Returning home to Australia after nearly a decade of estrangement from the Indian mother who arranged her marriage to a faithless man, an L.A. businesswoman coaches an attractive stuntman who remembers her from a steamy one-night stand.
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Take it back
by Kia Abdullah
Leaving her high-profile law position for a job at a crisis center, Zara Kaleel becomes involved in the case of a deformed teenage girl who accuses four boys in her class of rape, tearing the community apart.
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Djinn patrol on the purple line : a novel
by Deepa Anappara
In an award-winning debut based on true events, a 9-year-old reality-television enthusiast in India uses crime-show approaches to investigate the disappearance of a classmate, before additional abductions shatter life in his sprawling city home.
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Fireheart Tiger
by Aliette De Bodard
Sent away to Ephteria as a child hostage, Thanh returns to her mother’s imperial court as a diplomat where she is reunited with her first love and has to make some dangerous decisions.
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Before the coffee gets cold : a novel
by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
A U.S. release of a best-selling debut is set at a century-old Tokyo coffee shop rumored to offer patrons the chance to travel back in time, where four customers reevaluate their formative life choices.
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