Asian American


New Releases Tagged "Asian American"

Fishbone Cinderella
Crying in H Mart
Daughters of the Sun and Moon
Seek Immediate Shelter
Our Missing Hearts
Boring Asian Female
Pick a Color
Real Americans
Counterfeit
Stay True
Maggie; or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar
Blob: A Love Story
Taipei Story
The Swimmers
Homeseeking
The Satisfaction Café
Crying in H Mart
The Joy Luck Club
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
American Born Chinese
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Yellowface
Everything I Never Told You
Interior Chinatown
Little Fires Everywhere
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Pachinko
Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians, #1)
Stay True
Severance
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
Salt Fish Girl by Larissa LaiIf You Could Be Mine by Sara FarizanSouthland by Nina RevoyrTake Out by Quang BaoM. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang
Queer Asian American Literature
110 books — 13 voters
The New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Books White People Need to Read
1,476 books — 1,860 voters

Kira-Kira by Cynthia KadohataAmerican Born Chinese by Gene Luen YangGirl in Translation by Jean KwokEleanor & Park by Rainbow RowellBorn Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier
Best Asian-American Teen Fiction
279 books — 337 voters
The Wrath and the Dawn by Renée AhdiehThe Fifth Season by N.K. JemisinThe Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. JemisinKindred by Octavia E. ButlerWho Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
Fantasy Novels by Women of Color
264 books — 195 voters


Hua Hsu
There were aspects of their lives that felt familiar. Their parents were busy working as many jobs as they could, and whatever connection they maintained to the past had more to do with household tradition than politics. Words like 'genocide' and 'trauma' were forbidden. ...To me, Asian American was a messy, arbitrary category, but one that was produced by a collective struggle. It was a category capacious enough for all of our hopes and energies. There were similarities that cut across nation ...more
Hua Hsu, Stay True

If her love took on the contours of patriarchy and white supremacy, if her love was violent or brutal, so was the world in which she was trying to help me survive... still, I understand how abuse and violence can turn into grotesque proxies for love.
Julia Lee

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