Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - Asian & Asian American
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Beautiful Country: A Memoir of an Undocumented Childhood
$18.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER – The moving story of an undocumented child living in poverty in the richest country in the world–an incandescent debut from an astonishing new talent – A TODAY SHOW #REA… [more below]
- Author: Wang, Qian Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0593313003
- Language: English
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Restaurant Kid: A Memoir of Family and Belonging
$28.95 Add to cartA warm and poignant narrative about finding one’s self amidst the grind of restaurant life, the cross-generational immigrant experience, and a daughter’s attempts to connect with parents who have alwa… [more below]
- Author: Phan, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1639368515
- Language: English
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Being There: Memoir of an Asian American Journalist
$24.95 Add to cartIn the brisk, evocative prose of a seasoned television journalist, Lori Matsukawa describes her astonishing journey from a humble childhood in Hawaii to a stellar career as one of the nation’s best lo… [more below]
- Author: Matsukawa, Lori
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1634051068
- Language: English
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Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins
$22.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE – The heartrending story of twin sisters torn apart by China’s one-child policy and the rise of international adoption–from the author of the National Book … [more below]
- Author: Demick, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 0593132769
- Language: English
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Bibliophobia: A Memoir
$18.00 Add to cart“A wise, tremendously moving exploration of what it means to seek companionship and understanding, in books and in life.”–Hua Hsu, author of Stay True
“Stirring and sparkling.”–The Washington Post A- Author: Chihaya, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 0593594746
- Language: English
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Boat Baby: A Memoir
$20.00 Add to cartIn a memoir where heroism meets humor, NBC News anchor and correspondent Vicky Nguyen tells the story of her family’s daring escape from communist Vietnam and her unlikely journey from refugee to repo… [more below]
- Author: Nguyen, Vicky
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1668025574
- Language: English
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Bamboo Son: A Hmong Refugee’s Search for Identity and the American Dream
$24.95 Read more- Author: Lor, Pao
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1976600650
- Language: English
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Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief
$20.00 Add to cart“Groundbreaking . . . Chang’s lyrical experiment memorably evokes an individual family’s time capsule and an artist’s timeless yearning to shape carbon dust into incandescent gem.” –NPR
Now in paperb
- Author: Chang, Victoria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1571311882
- Language: English
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A Place for What We Lose: A Daughter’s Return to Tule Lake
$29.95 Add to cartA deeply affecting memoir of reckoning with a father’s death and the Japanese American incarceration
In a moving conversation with the past, Tamiko Nimura explores her late father’s life and her famil
- Author: Nimura, Tamiko
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 0295754753
- Language: English
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Called by the Hills: A Home in the Himalaya
$24.99 Add to cartA book about building a home and a wild garden on the edge of a Himalayan forest, illuminated by the author’s own watercolors.
When acclaimed novelist Anuradha Roy and her husband stumble upon a dereli
- Author: Roy, Anuradha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 0063491834
- Language: English
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American Flygirl
$18.95 Add to cartOne of WWII’s most uniquely hidden figures, Hazel Ying Lee was the first Asian American woman to earn a pilot’s license, join the WASPs, and fly for the United States military amid widespread anti-Asi… [more below]
- Author: Tate Ankeny, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0806542837
- Language: English
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Phantom Paradise: Escape from Manchuria
$29.32 Add to cartAFTER THE JAPANESE EMPIRE COLLAPSED OVERNIGHT, CIVILIANS WERE ABANDONED TO FIGHT FOR THEIR LIVES
When Soviet forces stormed into Manchuria at the end of World War II, a young mother was left alone with
- Author: Enokido, Kay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 394
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1954805926
- Language: English
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Names and Faces: A Graphic Memoir
$29.99 Add to cartA graphic memoir-in-essays examining the in-betweenness of being mixed-race and the cultural confrontations inherent to forging one’s identity
Who are you? What are you? And how does it feel to be yo- Author: Hook, Leise
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1250845033
- Language: English
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The Strength of Water: An Asian American Coming of Age Memoir
$21.00 Add to cart“Water is fluid, soft, yielding. But water will wear away rock… what is soft is strong.” -Lao Tzu
In 1920s Detroit, King Ying lives in a small apartment behind her parents’ laundry business, where sh
- Author: Jensen, Karin K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: November 07 2025
- ISBN10: 9798897409709
- Language: English
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Pond Beyond the Forest: Reflections on Childhood Trauma and Motherhood
$17.99 Add to cartFor fans of Stephanie Foo’s What My Bones Know, a memoir of a middle-aged Japanese immigrant mother’s struggle to raise her teenage son and save her marriage when she finds herself triggered by memori… [more below]
- Author: Ito, Shigeko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1647429803
- Language: English
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L?grimas En H Mart: Una Historia de Amor, P?rdida Y Cocina Coreana
$25.00 Add to cartDE LA L?DER DE LA BANDA INDIE POP JAPANESE BREAKFAST, UNA INOLVIDABLE HISTORIA SOBRE LA FAMILIA, LA COMIDA, EL DOLOR Y EL AMOR
Desde que mi madre muri?, lloro en H Mart.
H Mart es una cadena de supe- Author: Zauner, Michelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 8415887841
- Language: Spanish
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Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China
$35.00 Add to cartThe long-awaited sequel to Wild Swans, the multi-million copy, international bestselling sensation that traces the history of modern China through the true stories of three generations of women in one
- Author: Chang, Jung
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 0063480042
- Language: English
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I Want to Die But I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki: Further Conversations with My Psychiatrist
$18.99 Add to cartTranslated by International Booker shortlistee Anton Hur, the sequel to the phenomenal South Korean smash hit.
Baek Sehee could never have predicted how many people I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tte- Series: I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki
- Author: Sehee, Baek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1639737332
- Language: English
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Sing Me a Circle: Love, Loss, and a Home in Time
$24.99 Add to cart“All points on a circle are always the same distance from the center.” These exquisite personal essays trace the orbit of author Samina Najmi as she reflects on events, people, and places that shape h
- Author: Najmi, Samina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1949487482
- Language: English
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The Poet and the Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love, Imprisonment, and Protest
$22.00 Add to cartNow in paperback: A compelling and prismatic love story of one family’s defiance in the face of injustice–and how their story echoes across generations.
“Beautifully woven together by Satsuki Ina’s mo… [more below]
- Author: Ina, Satsuki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 159714696X
- Language: English
