Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - Asian & Asian American
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Last Boat to Freedom
$16.00 Add to cartAt just eighteen years old, Sudhir Suchak made a daring escape from the island of Zanzibar in East Africa.
Fleeing a repressive regime, political violence, and the trauma of a genocide that tore apart
- Author: Suchak, Sudhir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: May 19 2025
- ISBN10: 9798998595202
- Language: English
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Fault Lines: A Memoir
$20.95 Add to cartIn this evocative memoir, now a foundational text in postcolonial studies, an acclaimed Indian poet explores writing, memory, and place in a post-9/11 world.
- Author: Alexander, Meena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 1936932997
- Language: English
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I Want to Die But I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki: Further Conversations with My Psychiatrist. the Sunday Times and Internationally Bestselling Sequel
$26.99 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1639732306
- Language: English
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The Translator’s Daughter: A Memoir
$24.95 Add to cartBorn in Taiwan, Grace Loh Prasad was two years old when the threat of political persecution under Chiang Kai-shek’s dictatorship drove her family to the United States, setting her up to become an acci… [more below]
- Series: Machete
- Author: Prasad, Grace Loh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0814258972
- Language: English
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My Vietnam, Your Vietnam: A Father Flees. a Daughter Returns. a Dual Memoir.
$18.00 Add to cart“Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2024” —Ms. Magazine
A chronicle of the divergent journeys of a Vietnamese father, who fled his home country in desperation, and his American-born daughter, who vent
- Author: Vo, Christina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1953103464
- Language: English
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The Poet and the Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love, Imprisonment, and Protest
$35.00 Add to cartA compelling and prismatic love story of one family’s defiance in the face of injustice–and how their story echoes across generations.
“It is both overwhelming and affirming to imagine, in the midst o
- Author: Ina, Satsuki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1597146269
- Language: English
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American Flygirl
$28.00 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0806542829
- Language: English
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Boat Baby: A Memoir
$29.99 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1668025566
- Language: English
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I’ll Love You Forever: Notes from a K-Pop Fan
$28.99 Add to cartJia Tolentino’s Trick Mirror meets Cathy Park Hong’s Minor Feelings in a meditation that blends memoir and cultural criticism to explore how the author’s love affair with K-pop has shaped her sense of
- Author: Kwon, Giaae
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1250886236
- Language: English
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The Afterlife Is Letting Go
$17.95 Add to cart“The Afterlife Is Letting Go is a meditative consideration of Japanese American incarceration during WWII by Brandon Shimoda, author of the PEN Open Book Award-winning The Grave on the Wall.“–Matt Se
- Author: Shimoda, Brandon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0872869296
- Language: English
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A Remarkable Man: Dr. Shuntaro Hida from Hiroshima to Fukushima
$25.00 Add to cartA poignant, eye-opening portrait of a witness to the atomic bomb who dedicated his life to treating and advocating for radiation survivors.
As a young doctor, Shuntaro Hida (1917-2017) played an essen- Author: Petitjean, Marc
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 1635425433
- Language: English
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On Gold Hill: A Personal History of Wheat, Farming, and Family, from Punjab to California
$18.95 Add to cart- Author: Moyer, Jaclyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0807016772
- Language: English
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The Manicurist’s Daughter: A Memoir
$19.99 Read moreAn emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who searches for answers after her mother dies during plastic surgery.
Susan Lieu has long been searching- Author: Lieu, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1250835054
- Language: English
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Ayer descalzo, hoy benefactor: Mi historia de fe y coraje
$28.00 Add to cartCuando Lenny Peters era un ni?o que jugaba a las canicas entre los frondosos manglares de la empobrecida India, ten?a un deseo primordial: ser el mejor en todo lo que hiciera. Nacido en el seno de una
- Author: Peters, Lenny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: April 03 2024
- ISBN10: 9798218408329
- Language: Spanish
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From Manila to Wall Street: An Immigrant’s Journey With America’s First Black Tycoon
$20.00 Add to cartFrom Butch Meily, trusted public relations strategist to Reginald Lewis, the history-making African American dealmaker, comes an eye-opening business narrative. From Manila to Wall Street tells two st
- Author: Meily, Butch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1956474455
- Language: English
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From Manila to Wall Street: An Immigrant’s Journey With America’s First Black Tycoon
$32.00 Add to cartFrom Butch Meily, trusted public relations strategist to Reginald Lewis, the history-making African American dealmaker, comes an eye-opening business narrative. From Manila to Wall Street tells two st
- Author: Meily, Butch
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1956474641
- Language: English
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Blue Skies, Troubled Waters: An American Twin’s WWII Odyssey in Minahasa, Indonesia
$21.95 Add to cartBlue Skies, Troubled Waters, tells the remarkable true story of twin sisters Ath and Kath, born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1933, whose family is uprooted and deported to the jungles of Indonesia du
- Author: Walandouw Lohn, Martha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 9798218286767
- Language: English
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Songs of My Grandmother: On Finding Ourselves, Each Other and the Things That Make Us Come Alive
$14.99 Add to cartA collection of poetry and prose that offers comfort, community, and belonging through stories of love, loss, change, and rebirth.
In this collection of poetry and prose, Sara Surani weaves together t- Author: Surani, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1401980236
- Language: English
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Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins
$32.00 Add to cartThe 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 Award finalist Nothing to Envy, one of today’… [more below]
- Author: Demick, Barbara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0593132742
- Language: English
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Queering Constellations: Mapping This Journey Called Life
$24.95 Add to cartQueering Constellations is an interactive memoir of a queer Hindu Buddhist immigrant told through letters, poetry, art, and stories. Spanning Raja’s unique experiences that touch on universal themes o
- Author: Bhattar, Raja Gopal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: February 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1966655037
- Language: English
