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CRRL Picks: New Asian American & Pacific Islander Fiction
Check out the latest fiction from AAPI voices.
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- Spanning three timelines--post-socialist China, 1980s Chinatown, and contemporary New York-- Cinema Love is an sweeping epic about men and women who find themselves in forbidden relationships, the weight of secrets, and the way memory forever haunts…
- Debut novelist Wenyan Lu brings us this witty yet profound story about one woman's midlife reawakening in contemporary rural China for fans of Yiyun Li and Julie Otsuka.
- In the year 4 BCE, an ambitious courtier is called upon to seduce the young emperor--but quickly discovers they are both ruled by blood, sex, and intrigue. In 1740, a lonely innkeeper agrees to help a mysterious visitor procure a rare medicine, only…
- At a lavish party in the hills outside of San Francisco, Jin Han meets Lidija Jung, and nothing will ever be the same for either woman.
- After an ultra-romantic honeymoon across Europe, Meddy Chan and her husband Nathan have landed in Jakarta to spend Chinese New Year with her entire extended family.
- Pacific Hills, California: Gated communities, ocean views, well-tended lawns, serene pools, and now the new home of the Shah family. For the Shah parents, who came to America twenty years earlier with little more than an education and their new…
- Two screenwriters deal with their past relationship as they work together on a new TV series.
- Rufus Leung Gresham, future Earl of Greshambury and son of a former Hong Kong supermodel has a problem: the legendary Gresham Trust has been depleted by decades of profligate spending, and behind all the magazine covers and Instagram stories manors…
- A charming rom-com about a young woman's desperate attempts to fend off her meddling mother...only to find that maybe mother does know best.
- Three Asian American teenagers meet in the New York suburbs in the 1980s. Drawn together by their shared sense of alienation from their conventionally domestic immigrant families, each wants to live a meaningful life. They envision a future defined…
- What would you say to your meddling parents, your ex-best friend, your toxic boss, or your high school crush if you didn't have to face the consequences? Sara Chae is the founder of One Last Word, an app that allows you to send a message to anyone…
- Two people destined to be together, but to never see each other again, fight against the greatest odds in this powerful and moving fantasy novel.
- A hauntingly poetic family drama and coming-of-age story that reveals a dark corner of South Korean history through the eyes of a small community living in a reformatory center--a stunning work of great emotional power from the critically acclaimed…
- An exhilarating novel of American identity that spans three generations in one family and asks: What makes us who we are? And how inevitable are our futures?
- A dazzling and ambitious debut novel that follows a cosmopolitan Shanghai household backward in time--beginning in 2040 and moving through our present and the recent past--exploring their secrets, their losses, and the ways a family makes and…
- In 1999 Texas, Lia Cope,connects with her over stories of the Turtle House in Japan and the secrets they both carry, when her grandmother Mineko moves in, and, when Mineko is forced to live in an assisted living community, she and Lia devise a plan…
- Two feuding neighbors unite to resurrect a neglected city garden in this uplifting and quietly joyful novel by Sara Nisha Adams, author of the beloved The Reading List.
- They're walking on the wild side... The Plan was simple: find a cure for the cancer that nearly took her sister's life. But for Zoey Fong, something about The Plan isn't working anymore. Maybe it's her unsuccessful research, maybe it's burnout. But…
- A visual artist unravels after the death of her mother in Nguyen's exhilarating debut.
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