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• The Emperor of Gladness

  Vuong, Ocean, 1988-

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  "A year in the life of a wayward young man in New England who, by chance, becomes the caretaker for an eighty-two-year-old widow living with dementia, powering a story of friendship, loss, and how much we're willing to risk to claim one of life's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Note

  a Novel

  Burke, Alafair,

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  "Growing up, May Hanover was a good girl, always. Well-behaved, top of her class, a compulsive rule-follower. Raised by a first-generation Chinese single mother with high expectations, May didn’t have room to slip up, let alone fail. Her friends…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Rivals

  Pek, Jane

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  "Claudia Lin-mystery novel superfan and, until recently, clich©♭d underemployed English major-has scored her dream job: co-running Veracity, a dating detective agency whose mission is to determine if chronically online New Yorkers are telling the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• At the Edge of Empire

  a Family's Reckoning With China

  Wong, Edward, 1972-

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  "The son of Chinese immigrants in Washington, DC, Edward Wong grew up among family secrets. His father toiled in Chinese restaurants and rarely spoke of his native land or his years in the People’s Liberation Army under Mao. Yook Kearn Wong came of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Our Missing Hearts

  Ng, Celeste

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  "Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade,…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 her own…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Strangers in the Land

  Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America

  Luo, Michael,

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  "From New Yorker editor and writer Michael Luo, a vivid, urgent history of two centuries of Chinese exclusion and the birth of anti-Asian feeling in America. In 1889, when the Supreme Court upheld the Chinese Exclusion Act-a measure barring Chinese…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Original Daughter

  a Novel

  Wei, Jemimah,

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  In this dazzling debut, Stegner Fellow Jemimah Wei explores the formation and dissolution of family bonds in a story of ambition and sisterhood in turn-of-the-millennium Singapore. Before Arin, Genevieve Yang was an only child. Living with her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Awake in the Floating City

  a Novel

  Kwan, Susanna,

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  A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FROM PEOPLE MAGAZINE * An utterly transporting debut novel about the unexpected relationship between an artist and the 130-year-old woman she cares for--two of the last people living in a flooded San Francisco of the future,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Almost Brown

  Gill, Charlotte, 1971-

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  "An award-winning writer retraces her dysfunctional, biracial, globe-trotting family's journey as she reckons with ethnicity and belonging, diversity and race, and the complexities of life within a multicultural household. Charlotte Gill's father is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Documents

  Nguyen, Kevin

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  "Ursula, Alvin, Jen, and Duncan grew up as cousins in the sprawling Nguyen family, but the truth about their family is much more complicated. As young adults, they're on the precipice of new ventures-Ursula as a budding journalist in Manhattan,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Walk Like a Girl

  A Memoir

  Gurung, Prabal

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  From acclaimed fashion designer Prabal Gurung comes a captivating, courageous literary memoir, a testament to the transformative power of creativity, and a celebration of the power of femininity and individuality Walk Like a Girl is the story of a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Goddess Complex

  Sathian, Sanjena

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  "Sanjana Satyanandais trying to recover her life. It’s been a year since she walked out on her husband, a struggling actor named Killian, at a commune in India, after a disagreement about whether to have children. Now, Sanjana is struggling to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• No Country for Eight-spot Butterflies

  a Lyric Essay

  Aguon, Julian,

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  "No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies is a collection of soulful ruminations about love, loss, struggle, resilience and power. Part memoir, part manifesto, the book is both a coming-of-age story and a call for justice -- for everyone but, in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All This Could Be Different

  Mathews, Sarah Thankam

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  "From an exhilarating new voice comes a dazzling debut novel about an Indian-American immigrant building a life for herself in the Midwest-a brilliant and utterly absorbing story of love, friendship, and precarity in 21st century America. Graduating…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Oh My Mother!

  a Memoir in Nine Adventures

  Wang, Connie,

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  "A mother-daughter adventure around the world in pursuit of self-discovery, a family reckoning, and Asian American defiance"

• Real Americans

  Khong, Rachel, 1985-

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  "Real Americansn 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 native East…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East

  Barry, Quan,

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  "From the acclaimed author of We Ride Upons Sticks-a luminous novel that moves across a windswept Mongolia, as a pair of estranged twin brothers make a journey of duty, conflict, and renewed understanding. Tasked with finding the reincarnation of a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Your Driver Is Waiting

  Guns, Priya

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  "In this spiky and hilarious 21st century reboot of the iconic film Taxi Driver, a ride share driver is barely holding it together on the hunt for love, dignity and a living wage . . . until she decides she's done waiting. Damani is tired. Her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Horse Barbie

  a Memoir

  Rocero, Geena, 1983-

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  "As a young femme growing up in Manila in the 1990s, Geena Rocero endured shouts of bakla, bakla!, a Filipino taunt aimed at her feminine sway, whenever she left the little universe of her eskinita. Eventually she found her place in trans pageants,…Read moreRead more of this annotation