Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - Asian & Asian American
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Living the Asian Century: An Undiplomatic Memoir
$21.99 Add to cartIn this stirring memoir, a preeminent politician and diplomat traces the transformation of the Republic of Singapore from a poor colony into an Asian powerhouse.
In Living the Asian Century, Kishore- Author: Mahbubani, Kishore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1541703049
- Language: English
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Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor
$16.95 Read moreEditors’ Choice, The New York Times Book Review
“The immigrant child longs to be understood and unload her truths, while simultaneously being tasked with preserving her parents’ humanity. . . Qu. . .- Author: Qu, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1646221524
- Language: English
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I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki: Conversations with My Psychiatrist
$17.99 Add to cartThe internationally bestselling therapy memoir translated by International Booker Prize shortlisted Anton Hur.
PSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help you?
ME: I don’t know, I’m-what’s the word-depressed? Do I- Author: Sehee, Baek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1639732047
- Language: English
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Beautiful Country: A Memoir
$36.00 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: 464
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0593460014
- Language: English
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Jesus did many other things as well…BOOK TWO: More Short Stories Out of Japan
$12.00 Add to cartFollowing on his first book, Tony Schmidt is joined by his wife in presenting 16 more short stories of experiences from their 33 years as missionaries in Japan. Each story gives a glimpse of Japanese
- Author: Schmidt, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1775146227
- Language: English
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Skinny Woman in a Straw Hat
$27.00 Add to cartWhen young Hao Tran left Vietnam in 1974 to study abroad, he had no idea it would be 20 years before he could return, or how much his native land would change in his absence. These are the stories of
- Author: Tran, Hao C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1945955422
- Language: English
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Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City
$17.95 Add to cartIn the late 1980s on the Jersey shore, Jane Wong watches her mother shake ants from an MSG bin behind the family’s Chinese restaurant. She is a hungry daughter frying crab rangoon for lunch, a child s… [more below]
- Author: Wong, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1959030396
- Language: English
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Maxine Hong Kingston: The Woman Warrior, China Men, Tripmaster Monkey, Hawai’i O Ne Summer, Other Writings (Loa #355)
$45.00 Read moreThe largest and most comprehensive edition of our foremost Asian American writer: three classic books and additional writings, many rare, that together offer a vivid and searching portrait of immigran
- Author: Kingston, Maxine Hong
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1056
- Publish Date: May 17, 2022
- ISBN10: 1598537245
- Language: English
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Owner of a Lonely Heart: A Memoir of Motherhood and Absence
$17.99 Add to cartNamed a Best Memoir of 2023 by Oprah Daily – Selected by Time, NPR, and BookPage as a Best Book of 2023
“This book…is what memoir writing in the hands of a caring, curious wunderkind can be.” –Kies- Author: Nguyen, Beth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1982196351
- Language: English
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The Grave on the Wall
$17.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2020 PEN Open Book Award
Best of 2019: Nonfiction – Entropy Magazine
A memoir and book of mourning, a grandson’s attempt to reconcile his own uncontested citizenship with his grandfather’s
- Author: Shimoda, Brandon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: July 30 2019
- ISBN10: 0872867900
- Language: English
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On Gold Hill: A Personal History of Wheat, Farming, and Family, from Punjab to California
$28.95 Read moreA young South Asian American woman’s story of reconnecting with her identity, family, and heritage through sustainable farming
In 2012, 25-year-old Jackie Moyer–the daughter of a forbidden marriage b- Author: Moyer, Jaclyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0807045306
- Language: English
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Sons of Chinatown: A Memoir Rooted in China and America
$35.00 Read moreWilliam Gee Wong was born in Oakland, California’s Chinatown in 1941, the only son of his father, known as Pop. Pop was born in Guangdong Province, China and emigrated to Oakland as a teenager during … [more below]
- Author: Wong, William Gee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1439924872
- Language: English
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Remembering Shanghai: A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels
$19.95 Add to cartWINNER OF OVER 20 LITERARY AND DESIGN AWARDS including the Writer’s Digest Grand Prize and Rubery Book Award Book of the Year
True stories of glamour, drama, and tragedy told through five generations
- Author: Chao, Isabel Sun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1954854056
- Language: English
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Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America
$18.99 Add to cartJulia Lee is angry. And she has questions.
What does it mean to be Asian in America? What does it look like to be an ally or an accomplice? How can we shatter the structures of white supremacy that fue- Author: Lee, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1250861578
- Language: English
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Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China’s Civil War
$27.95 Add to cartJun and Hong were scions of a once great southern Chinese family. Each other’s best friend, they grew up in the 1930s during the final days of Old China before the tumult of the twentieth century brou
- Author: Li, Zhuqing
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 0393541770
- Language: English
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Concepcion: Conquest, Colonialism, and an Immigrant Family’s Fate
$27.00 Add to cart“Absolutely extraordinary…A landmark in the contemporary literature of the diaspora.” –Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror
“If Concepcion were only about Samaha’s mother, it would already be whol- Author: Samaha, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 11, 2022
- ISBN10: 0593086090
- Language: English
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Western Journeys
$21.95 Read moreIn Western Journeys, Teow Lim Goh charts her journeys immigrating from Singapore and spending the last fifteen years living in and exploring the American West. Goh chronicles her lived experiences wh
- Author: Goh, Teow Lim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: October 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1647690951
- Language: English
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Passport to Shame: From Asian Immigrant to American Addict
$18.95 Add to cartA psychotherapist’s candid memoir of addiction and recovery, exploring the intersection of Asian culture, mental health, and assimilating into American culture as an ethnic minority.
Sam Louie grew up
- Author: Louie, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1949481689
- Language: English
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The Body Papers: A Memoir
$17.99 Add to cartWinner of The Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Grace Talusan’s critically acclaimed memoir The Body Papers, a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection, powerfully explores the fraught c
- Series: Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant W
- Author: Talusan, Grace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1632060248
- Language: English
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The Lost Indian
$10.99 Add to cartThis is not an ordinary story, but rather a tale of inspiration, perseverance, and determination. Jimit Kapedia is a businessman, entrepreneur, caretaker, and a fun-loving individual, whose story will… [more below]
- Author: Kapadia, Jimit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 86
- Publish Date: October 11 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218218867
- Language: English
