Crumb asked Lucy Tan:

Do you have any favorite books about Asians in America? Or any favorite historical fiction about Asians?

Lucy Tan So many! I will just list a few here. My favorite work of Chinese historical fiction is To Live by Yu Hua (translated from Chinese by Michael Berry). For a more modern view of China, take a look at Xiaolu Guo's Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth. I can also recommend Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, which explores the Korean experience in Japan in the 1900s.

My favorite novels about Asians in American include Hunger (a novella and stories) by Samantha Chang, Chemistry by Weike Wang, and Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympathizer.

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