This book is so many things, and I love all of it because David Chang is unflinchingly real. He talks through being a child of immigrants, depressions, imposter syndrome, making mistakes, reaching out for help and walking away from that help. As an entrepreneur, I saw myself and I saw how I can become a …
Ford is a graceful, empathetic storyteller, and he is at his best here. This tale is loosely based on a real Chinese woman who came to the US in the mid-1800s and was briefly popular on stage, where audiences cheered her on as an exotic novelty. It was not a happy life. Across generations and …
[In David Yoon’s City of Orange, a] man wakes up. He has no memory. He’s not sure where he is. He’s injured and thirsty. As he explores what looks like an apocalyptic landscape for food, water, and answers, he gradually realizes everything is not as it seems. Show up for the “what the heck?” Stick …
Roll, Fill, Pinch. It sounds easy, but Amy Wu just cannot make a perfect bao. But with a little innovation, suddenly she’s a master. With a family recipe at the back of the book, this a tasty story about trying things a little bit differently. –Laura DeLaney, Rediscovered Bookshop, Boise, ID Get cooking with Amy …
It’s time for a Thursday Theme, where we shine a spotlight on some of the titles featured in this week’s Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association regional bestseller list. May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Let’s celebrate the first week with bestselling books by Asian American authors, and let’s work on getting some books by …
Julie Otsuka’s novels are literary gems, and Swimmers joins its predecessors—The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor was Divine—as a work of uncommonly lyrical beauty and pathos. The loss of a public swimming pool to a series of mysterious cracks developing on the bottom disperses a tight and quirky community of lap swimmers. …
… speaking of fantastic reads, Afterparties, Anthony Veasna So’s posthumous debut, arrives this week. Afterparties is a collection of loosely connected stories about Cambodian-Americans. They are all crafting new identities (or trying to find identities) in America, but the ghosts of the ancestors and the haunting memories of their homeland are never far away. So’s stories are both …
If you, like me, thought Charles Yu’s Interior Chinatown was a terrific novel, funny, tragic, thought-provoking, insightful, all those good things, then here’s your next great read: Percival Everett’s Erasure. √ them out today. —Nancy Pearl on social media 5/18/20, reposted 5/18/21 One Nightstand is a reader-fueled feature, and you can be a contributor, too. Simply …
This is a true story about a girl who was sent to live in Japan with her grandmother for six months. Waka is very funny, and it was very interesting reading about what Japan was like for Japanese Americans in the ’80s. Definitely made we want to visit Japan someday! –Hailey, Liberty Bay Books, Poulsbo, …
In her book, Minor Feelings: an Asian American Reckoning, poet, critic and essayist Cathy Park Hong wrote: “For as long as I could remember, I have struggled to prove myself into existence.” For me, this line sets the tone for one of the most thoughtful and important books I’ve read in years. I had to …
