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"Grace M. Cho grew up in a small, rural American town as the daughter of a white American merchant marine and the Korean bar hostess he met abroad. When Grace was fifteen, her Korean mother experienced the onset of schizophrenia, a condition that would continue for the rest of her life. Part food memoir, part sociological investigation, TASTES LIKE WAR is a hybrid text about a daughter's search through intimate and global history to understand herself...
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Winner of the Virginia Prize for Fiction
A young American on a vacation trip around India with her boyfriend, steps down off the train for a bottle of water at Shambala Junction, only to find herself stranded at the town with no phone or money, she has to rely on the kindness of strangers...
A journey into the heart of India, Iris is forced to question her beliefs and values and to learn what really counts.
3) Keurium
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Shay Stone lies in a hospital bed, catatonic–dead to the world. Her family thinks it's a ploy for attention. Doctors believe it's the result of an undisclosed trauma. At the mercy of memories and visitations, Shay unearths secrets that may have led to her collapse. Will she remain paralyzed in denial? Or can she accept the unfathomable and break free?
KEURIUM threads through one adopted Korean American's life of longing and letting go. On a quest...
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Jennifer Ann Ho introduces readers to a "typical American" writer, Gish Jen, the author of four novels, Typical American, Mona in the Promised Land, The Love Wife, and World and Town; a collection of short stories, Who's Irish?; and a collection of lectures, Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self. Jen writes with an engaging, sardonic, and imaginative voice illuminating themes common to the American experience: immigration, assimilation,...
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2016
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Dispel the hype and myths about Asian parenting and uncover the practical with this effective parenting guide .How do Asian parents prime their children for success from a young? Why do Asian kids do so well in math and science? What is the difference between an Asian upbringing and a Western one? Why do some Asian mothers see themselves as "tiger moms" while others shun the label? How do Asian parents deal with their children's failures? Is it sometimes...
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Raised by two loving parents in New Delhi, India, Kanchan Bhaskar has always been taught that marriage means companionship, tenderness, and mutual respect—so when she enters into an arranged marriage, this is the kind of partnership she anticipates with her new, seemingly wonderful, husband. But after they marry, she quickly discovers that his warmth is deceptive—that the man beneath the bright, charming façade is actually a narcissistic,...
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As a first-generation Indian
American, Priti Tanna navigated the challenging interplay of traditional Indian
values and the modern American lifestyle, seeking her place of belonging.
Balancing the weight of generational expectations, she pursued the
"trifecta" of a stellar education, an ideal Indian partner, and early
motherhood.
When a supposed astrological
mishap led to Priti symbolically marrying a coconut to remedy her struggles to
find love,...
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Mehriban is born into an Uighur family in a village in eastern Kazakhstan in which everybody works on the local collective farm. She tells of the people among whom she grows up, and in particular of the women, daughters, sisters, mothers, aunts, grandmothers, their lives and loves, their resilience in the face of bereavement, injustice, hunger and cold, their folk wisdom and their irrepressible spirit.
Covering three generations, from the Stalinist...
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An unprecedented and heartfelt memoir that illuminates the lives of rural Chinese workers, offering a portrait of generational strife, family, love, and loss that crosses cultures and time.
Cai Chongda spent his childhood in a rural fishing village in Fujian province. When his father-a former communist gang leader turned gas station owner-has a stroke that partially paralyzes him, his responsibilities fall to Cai, his only son.
Assuming his new role...
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The Fate We Make: Heartbreak, is the first volume of a remarkable, occasionally tragic, but ultimately redemptive coming-of-age story. From an early age, Simone Warren recognized that she was caught between her family's expectations and her need to find her own path and voice. Born into a Singaporean Chinese family and a life rooted in tradition, her story is a stunning tale of survival and an inspiring look at how we can learn to move beyond trauma...
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These political poems employ humor to challenge the cultural norms of American society, focusing primarily on racism, social injustices and inequality. Simultaneously, the poems take on a deeper, personal level as it carefully deconstructs identity and the human experience, piecing them together with unflinching logic and wit. Olzmann takes readers on a surreal exploration of discovery and self-evaluation.
12) Confi-Dance
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Have you ever gone through a crisis of confidence that tore at the core of who you are? This was a question May Lam Rocco never thought she would have to answer.
May Lam Rocco had the golden touch. Despite growing up in a traditional Asian family, she would go on to become one of the most prominent businesswomen in Taiwan and Hong Kong in the 1980s. Her entrepreneurial journey was one few women in Asia traveled at the time. She had many successes...
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At last, after sixty years of adoption profiteering, these narratives paint a true portrait of adoption--from the back door--by those most affected. This collection, compiled by Korean adoptees, serves as a tribute to transracially adopted people sent all over the world. It has been hailed to be the first book to give Korean adoptees the opportunity to speak freely since the pioneering of intercountry adoption after the Korean War. If you were adopted,...
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Christina Vo has always struggled with the concept of "home." The daughter of an emotionally distant father and a mother who died when she was just fourteen, she continues to grapple with that legacy of loss and her constant quest to, as a fortysomething, find a reconciliation with the shape her life has taken. In January 2021, feeling a call to be closer to the land, she decides to leave San Francisco, this time permanently, she hopes, and set off...
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These Ordinary Moments of Grief is the story of an ordinary person losing her precious mother to ovarian cancer. Author D.C. Zhang found herself lost and unsure how to sift through the grief.
Empowered by the realization that we will all experience loss, Zhang began to share with the world her musings on grief, first online and now in her debut book, with a series of essays. This is not an instruction book about how to handle grief, but is a book...
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From the hair color and style, body-type, shape to etiquette and level of femininity of Asian women, Boye de Mente takes the reader into full detail with Women of the Orient chapters including: o The women of Japan o The women of Korea o The women of Taiwan & Hong Kong o The women of Thailand o The Women of Vietnam o And lastly the Women of the Philippines... In Women of the Orient, Boye De Mente, reveals Asia's exotic cities and explores the unique...
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AN INSPIRING MEMOIR BY THE DAUGHTER OF THE PHILIPPINES 'NATION'S LITTLE SWEETHEART' OFFERS AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT OF HER MOTHER As the daughter and granddaughter of world-famous entertainers from the Philippines' Golden Age of cinema, Mylene Agana Jao Richardson was born into a family of legends. Tessie Agana, Mylene's mother, and Linda Estrella, her grandmother, were the nation's iconic mother/daughter film star duo of the 1950s, starring in approximately...
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These tales effortlessly hop from modern day to life growing up as a nerd in a New Jersey suburb during the 1990s.
From Asian immigrant parenting to heartbreak, from mental health to pizza arbitrage, from identity & belonging to a fart story that may leave you in tears; there's something for everyone in this book.
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"A bicultural child of a Malay mother and an Indian father, Amelia Zachry was different from the get-go, never quite fitting in. In this raw, inspiring memoir, she chronicles the long, winding journey that brought her from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Kentucky, USA, the place she and her family now call home. Amelia was nineteen years old, her future wide open, when a fellow student from her Kuala Lumpur university sexually assaulted her. After that...
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Based on longitudinal ethnographic work on migration between the United States and Taiwan, Time and Migration interrogates how long-term immigrants negotiate their needs, as they grow older and how transnational migration shapes later-life transitions. Ken Chih-Yan Sun develops the concept of a "temporalities of migration" to examine the interaction between space, place, and time. He demonstrates how long-term settlement in the United States, coupled...
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