Asian & Asian American
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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 Autobiography of H. LAN Thao Lam
$18.00 Add to cartSituated between memoir, social criticism, and conceptual art, The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam is an incisive response to a modernist classic and an affecting exploration of the poetics and polit… [more below]
- Author: Lin, Lana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1948980290
- 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
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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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Patchwork: A Sewist’s Diary
$19.99 Add to cartIn Patchwork, a charming and evocative sewist’s diary, Maddie Ballard explores the making (and sometimes remaking) of seventeen specific garments over a period of great change in her life–from a jack… [more below]
- Author: Ballard, Maddie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1963108485
- Language: English
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Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging
$17.95 Add to cartA prize-winning memoirist and nature writer turns to the lives of plants entangled in our human world to explore belonging, displacement, identity, and the truths of our shared future
A seed slips bey- Author: Lee, Jessica J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1646222717
- Language: English
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The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong’s Greatest Dissident, and China’s Most Feared Critic
$28.99 Add to cartThe “extraordinary life story” (Publishers Weekly) of the billionaire businessman Jimmy Lai, a leading Hong Kong democracy activist fighting for freedom of speech who became China’s most famous politi… [more below]
- Author: Clifford, Mark L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1668027690
- Language: English
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Beyond the Mountains: An Immigrant’s Inspiring Journey of Healing and Learning to Dance with the Universe
$26.00 Read moreThe powerful story of how an immigrant from the Philippines overcame childhood trauma and an emotionally abusive marriage to find her voice and thrive
As a child in a small barrio in the Philippines,- Author: Prem, Deja Vu
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1640096450
- Language: English
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Dancing on My Own: Essays on Art, Collectivity, and Joy
$27.99 Add to cartA Literary Hub Most Noteworthy Nonfiction Book of 2024 – A Brooklyn Rail Best Art Book of 2024 – A The Millions and Hyperallergic Most Anticipated Book of 2024 – A Publishers Weekly Summer Reads Pick
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- Author: Wu, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 006331620X
- 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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Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen
$32.00 Add to cartFrom the renowned director of Crazy Rich Asians and Wicked comes a powerful, inspiring memoir of belonging, creativity, and learning to see who you really are.
“[Jon M. Chu] is a visionary. . . . He m- Author: Chu, Jon M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0593448944
- Language: English
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Little Seed
$18.95 Add to cartFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK of 2024
“Little Seed is what I want the future of literature to be.” -Sam Cohen, author of Sarahland
Little Seed is an experimen
- Author: Tchou, Wei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1646053362
- Language: English
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This Part Is Silent: A Life Between Cultures
$17.99 Add to cartBorn in Korea, raised in the American South, and trying her best to survive British academia, SJ Kim probes her experiences as a writer, a scholar, and a daughter to confront the silences she finds in
- Author: Kim, Sj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1324064765
- Language: English
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The Story Game
$17.95 Add to cartIn the humid dark of a eucalyptus-scented room, a woman named Hui lies on a mattress telling stories about herself to her listener, a little girl. She talks about her identity as the child of an immig… [more below]
- Author: Tjoa, Shze-Hui
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1959030752
- Language: English
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Meridian
$14.95 Add to cartMeridian maps the remarkable life of Kija Kim. From growing up during the Korean War, to studying in the United States (at a time when it was virtually unheard of for a young woman to get a graduate d… [more below]
- Author: Kim, Kija
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 19 2024
- ISBN10: 9798990310612
- Language: English
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Setsuko’s Secret: Heart Mountain and the Legacy of the Japanese American Incarceration
$29.95 Read moreAs children, Shirley Ann Higuchi and her brothers knew Heart Mountain only as the place their parents met, imagining it as a great Stardust Ballroom in rural Wyoming. As they grew older, they would co… [more below]
- Author: Higuchi, Shirley Ann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0299327809
- 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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Woman of Interest: A Memoir
$28.99 Read moreMOST ANTICIPATED READ and MUST READ OF 2024: The Millions, LitHub, Esquire, BookRiot, Bustle, Vulture, Boston Globe, Brit & Co, Southern Living
“Woman of Interest is a memoir wrapped in a mystery–an i
- Author: O’Neill, Tracy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 0063309866
- 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
