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• The Sympathizer

  Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971-

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  "Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize, a startling debut novel from a powerful new voice featuring one of the most remarkable narrators of recent fiction: a conflicted subversive and idealist working as a double agent in the aftermath of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Interior Chinatown

  Yu, Charles, 1976-

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  "Willis Wu doesn't perceive himself as the protagonist in his own life: he's merely Generic Asian Man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but always he is relegated to a prop. Yet every…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Yellowface

  a Novel

  Kuang, R. F. (Rebecca F.),

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  "White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences... Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn't write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American--in this chilling and hilariously…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Everything I Never Told You

  Ng, Celeste

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  "Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue. But when Lydia's body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Nights When Nothing Happened

  Han, Simon,

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  "From the outside, the Chengs seem like so-called model immigrants. Once Patty landed a tech job near Dallas, she and Liang grew secure enough to have a second child, and to send for their first from his grandparents back in China. Isn't…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• No-no Boy

  Okada, John

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  "No-No Boy tells the story of Ichiro Yamada, a fictional version of the real-life 'no-no boys.' Yamada answered 'no' twice in a compulsory government questionnaire as to whether he would serve in the armed forces and swear loyalty to the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Homeland Elegies

  a Novel

  Akhtar, Ayad,

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  "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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Namesake

  Lahiri, Jhumpa

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  "Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. The name they bestow on their firstborn, Gogol, betrays all the conflicts of honoring tradition in a new world --…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hula

  a Novel

  Hakes, Jasmin 'Iolani,

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  "Hi'i is proud to be a Naupaka, a family renowned for its contributions to hula and her hometown of Hilo, Hawaii, but there's a lot she doesn't understand. She's never met her legendary grandmother and her mother has never revealed the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• What We Kept to Ourselves

  a Novel

  Kim, Nancy Jooyoun,

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  "Both a riveting page-turner and moving family story, What We Kept to Ourselves masterfully explores the consequences of secrets between parents and children, hus­bands and wives. It is the story of one unforgettable family's search for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

  a Novel

  Vuong, Ocean, 1988-

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  "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born -- a history whose…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Real Americans

  a Novel

  Khong, Rachel, 1985-

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  "Real Americans begins on the precipice of Y2K in New York City, when twenty-two-year-old Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a slick media company, meets Matthew. Matthew is everything Lily is not: easygoing and effortlessly attractive, a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Miracle Creek

  Kim, Angie, 1969-

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  "In a small town in Virginia, a group of people know each other because they're part of a special treatment center, a hyperbaric chamber that may cure a range of conditions from infertility to autism. But then the chamber explodes, two…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dark Chapter

  Li, Winnie M.,

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  "Vivian is a cosmopolitan Taiwanese-American tourist who often escapes her busy life in London through adventure and travel. Johnny is a 15-year-old Irish teenager, living a neglected life on the margins of society. He has grown up in a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Gold Diggers

  Sathian, Sanjena,

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  "A floundering second-generation teenager growing up in the Bush-era Atlanta suburbs, Neil Narayan is funny and smart but struggles to bear the weight of expectations of his family and their Asian American enclave. He tries to want their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Apology

  Han, Jimin, (Novelist)

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  "Hak Jeonga has always shouldered the burden of upholding the family name. When she sent her daughter-in-law to America to cover up an illegitimate birth, she was simply doing what was needed to preserve the reputations of her loved ones.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Before We Visit the Goddess

  Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee, 1956- ,

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  "In her latest novel, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni explores the complex relationships between mothers and daughters, and the different kinds of love that bind us across generations. Before We Visit the Goddess captures the gorgeous…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Evil Eye

  a Novel

  Rum, Etaf,

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  "The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of A Woman Is No Man returns with a striking exploration of the expectations of Palestinian-American women, the meaning of a fulfilling life, and the ways our unresolved pasts affect our…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Love Can't Feed You

  a Novel

  Sy, Cherry Lou,

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  "A beautiful, tender yet searing debut novel about intergenerational fractures and coming of age, following a young woman who immigrates to the United States from the Philippines and finds herself adrift between familial expectations and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Swimmers

  Otsuka, Julie, 1962-

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  "From the best-selling, award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine comes a novel about what happens to a group of obsessed recreational swimmers when a crack appears at the bottom of their local pool.…Read moreRead more of this annotation