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TITLE: Crying in H Mart
AUTHOR: Michelle Zauner WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Zau SUMMARY: The Japanese Breakfast indie pop star presents a full-length account of her viral New Yorker essay to share poignant reflections on her experiences of growing up Korean-American, becoming a professional musician and caring for her terminally ill mother. |
TITLE: The Wrong End of the Table: A Mostly Comic Memoir of a Muslim Arab American Woman Just Trying to Fit In
AUTHOR: Ayser Salman WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Sal SUMMARY: Recounts the author's experiences as a young Iraqi immigrant trying to fit in among her American counterparts, discussing her parents' strict rules, her ill-advised romantic dalliances, and the isolation she felt after 9/11. |
TITLE: Symptoms of a Heartbreak
AUTHOR: Sona Charaipotra WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Cha - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Fresh from medical school, teenage genius Saira takes a job treating childhood cancer, and must prove herself to skeptical adult coworkers while adjusting to real life-and-death stakes and falling for one of her patients. |
TITLE: Super Fake Love Song
AUTHOR: David Yoon WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Yoo - ROMANCE SUMMARY: When new-girl Cirrus mistakes self-described nerd Sunny Dae as the lead in a rock band, Sunny rolls with it forming a fake band with his friends, but as the lies continue he risks losing both Cirrus and his friends. |
TITLE: Red, White, and Whole
AUTHOR: Rajani LaRocca WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F LaR - NOVELS SUMMARY: Feeling disconnected from her heritage as the only Indian-American student in her community, young Reha commits herself to a future different from her dreams when her mother becomes dangerously ill. |
TITLE: Of Curses and Kisses
AUTHOR: Sandhya Menon WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Men - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Told in two voices, Jaya Rao, an East Indian princess, and Grey Emerson, an English lord, suffer the effects of a centuries-old feud when they meet at an elite Colorado boarding school. |
TITLE: More Than Just a Pretty Face
AUTHOR: Syed Masood WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Mas - ROMANCE SUMMARY: When self-proclaimed 'not very bright' nineteen-year-old Danyal Jilani is chosen for a prestigious academic contest, he hopes to impress a potential arranged marriage match, only to begin falling for the girl helping him study instead. |
TITLE: Cold
AUTHOR: Mariko Tamaki WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Tam - MYSTERY SUMMARY: Told in alternating perspectives, Todd replays the events that lead to his death in the local park, watching as detectives investigate his murder and talk to the students responsible for it, and meanwhile Georgia, who does not know Todd, cannot stop thinking about him. |
TITLE: Measuring Up
AUTHOR: Lily Lamotte WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Lam - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Having just moved to Seattle from Taiwan, twelve-year-old Cici enters a cooking competition to win the chance to see her grandmother again, but she only knows how to cook Taiwanese food. |
TITLE: Himawari House
AUTHOR: Harmony Becker WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Bec - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: A young adult graphic novel about three foreign exchange students and the pleasures, and difficulties, of adjusting to living in Japan. |
TITLE: When We Were Infinite
AUTHOR: Kelly Loy Gilbert WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Gil - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Knowing that the friendships she depends on will change when her parents split up, Beth witnesses a private act of violence in her crush's home before forging a pact with her friends to offer support in the face of a life-altering decision. |
TITLE: Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
AUTHOR: Cathy Park Hong WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Hon SUMMARY: Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong confronts the Asian American condition, blending memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the truth of racialized consciousness in America. |
TITLE: The Magic Fish
AUTHOR: Trung Le Nguyen WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Tru - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Real life isn't a fairytale. But Tíên still enjoys reading his favorite stories with his parents from the books he borrows from the local library. It's hard enough trying to communicate with your parents as a kid, but for Tíên, he doesn't even have the right words because his parents are struggling with their English. Is there a Vietnamese word for what he's going through? Is there a way to tell them he's gay? |
TITLE: The Wrong End of the Table: A Mostly Comic Memoir of a Muslim Arab American Woman Just Trying to Fit In
AUTHOR: Ayser Salman WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Sal SUMMARY: Recounts the author's experiences as a young Iraqi immigrant trying to fit in among her American counterparts, discussing her parents' strict rules, her ill-advised romantic dalliances, and the isolation she felt after 9/11. |
TITLE: We Are Not Free
AUTHOR: Traci Chee CALL NUMBER: F Che - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps. |
TITLE: Almost American Girl
AUTHOR: Robin Ha CALL NUMBER: 921 Ha - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Moving abruptly from Seoul to Alabama, a Korean teen struggles in a hostile blended home and a new school where she does not speak English before forging unexpected connections in a local comic drawing class. |
TITLE: Anna K.
AUTHOR: Jenny Lee CALL NUMBER: F Lee - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Told from multiple viewpoints, while seventeen-year-old Anna K seems above the typical problems of her Manhattan friends and siblings, finding love with a notorious playboy changes everything. |
TITLE: Displacement
AUTHOR: Kiku Hughes CALL NUMBER: F Hug - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco when suddenly she finds herself displaced to the 1940s Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother, Ernestina, was forcibly relocated to during World War II. These displacements keep occurring until Kiku finds herself "stuck" back in time. Living alongside her young grandmother and other Japanese-American citizens in internment camps, Kiku gets the education she never received in history class. She witnesses the lives of Japanese-Americans who were denied their civil liberties and suffered greatly, but managed to cultivate community and commit acts of resistance in order to survive. |
TITLE: Dragon Hoops
AUTHOR: Gene Luen Yang CALL NUMBER: F Yan - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: An introverted reader starts understanding local enthusiasm about sports in his school when he gets to know some of his talented athletic peers and discovers that their stories are just as thrilling as the comics he loves. |
TITLE: The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
AUTHOR: Kamala Harris CALL NUMBER: 921 Har SUMMARY: Harris, Vice President and a former United States senator from California, describes how her upbringing and her career as the district attorney for San Francisco and later as California's attorney general influenced her passion for justice. She communicates a vision of shared struggle, shared purpose, and shared values and discusses the core truths that unite us and how to best act on them. |
TITLE: Shine
AUTHOR: Jessica Jung WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Jun - NOVELS SUMMARY: Seventeen-year-old Rachel Kim confronts the dark underbelly of the K-pop world as she strives to become a K-pop star. |
TITLE: A Line in the Dark
AUTHOR: Malinda Lo WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Lo - MYSTERY SUMMARY: When Chinese American teenager Jess Wong's best friend Angie falls in love with a girl from the nearby boarding school, Jess expects heartbreak. But when everybody's secrets start to be revealed, the stakes quickly elevate from love or loneliness to life or death. |
TITLE: Somewhere Only We Know
AUTHOR: Maurene Goo WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Goo - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Told from two viewpoints, teens Lucky, a very famous K-pop star, and Jack, a part-time paparazzo who is trying to find himself, fall for each other against the odds through the course of one stolen day. |
TITLE: The Way You Make Me Feel
AUTHOR: Maurene Goo WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Goo - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Sentenced to a summer working on her father's food truck after taking a joke too far, prankster Korean-American Clara Shin unexpectedly bonds with a straitlaced co-worker and a cute boy on another food truck while reevaluating her relationship with her estranged mother. |
TITLE: Level Up
AUTHOR: Gene Luen Yang WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Yan - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Dennis Ouyang lives in the shadow of his parents' high expectations: they want him to go to medical school; Dennis just wants to play video games (and he might actually be good enough to do it professionally)-but four adorable, bossy and occasionally terrifying angels arrive just in time to lead Dennis back onto the straight and narrow path to gastroenterology. |
TITLE: Permanent Record
AUTHOR: Mark H. K. Choi WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Cho - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Nineteen-year-old Pablo Neruda Rind is working in an upscale health food store in New York City when pop star Leanna Smart rushes in and turns his life upside-down. |
TITLE: Frankly in Love
AUTHOR: David Yoon WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Yoo - ROMANCE SUMMARY: High school senior Frank Li takes a risk to go after a girl his parents would never approve of, but his plans will leave him wondering if he ever really understood love--or himself--at all. |
TITLE: The Shadow Hero
AUTHOR: Story by Gene Luen Yang ; art by Sonny Liew WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Yan - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: In this origin story for the classic comic book hero the Green Turtle, Hank, the nineteen-year-old son of Chinese immigrants, resists his mother's attempts to make him a superhero at first, but when tragedy strikes he assumes the role of a caped crusader. Aided by one of the four spirits of Chinese mythology, Hank becomes the Green Turtle and sets out to rid Chinatown of the gangsters who have intimidated everyone for years and murdered his father. |
TITLE: When Dimple Met Rishi
AUTHOR: Sandhya Menon WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Men - ROMANCE SUMMARY: When Dimple Shah and Rishi Patel meet at a Stanford University summer program, Dimple is avoiding her parents' obsession with "marriage prospects" but Rishi hopes to woo her into accepting arranged marriage with him. |
TITLE: From Twinkle, With Love
AUTHOR: Sandhya Menon WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Men - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Leaping at a fellow movie geek's offer to direct a submission for an upcoming summer film festival, Twinkle Mehra begins receiving anonymous romantic emails and finds herself torn between her longtime crush and her film-buff new friend. |
TITLE: Unaccustomed Earth
AUTHOR: Jhumpa Lahiri WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Lah - NOVELS SUMMARY: Contains eight short stories, largely centered on themes of family and friendship, including the title story, "Unaccustomed Earth," in which Ruma, a young mother, is visited by her father in Seattle. |
TITLE: The Best We Could Do
AUTHOR: Thi Bui WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Bui - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: In graphic novel format, Thi Bui describes her family's experiences as they immigrate to the United States from their war-torn home in Vietnam. |
TITLE: Everything I Never Told You
AUTHOR: Celeste Ng WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ng - NOVELS SUMMARY: The daughter of a Chinese American family is found dead, turning the family's lives upside down. |
TITLE: They Called Us Enemy
AUTHOR: George Takei WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Tak - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Actor, author, and activist George Takei recounts his childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps for Japanese Americans during World War II and the impact the experience had on his later life. |
TITLE: Diary of a Tokyo Teen: A Japanese-American Girl Draws Her Way Across the Land of Trendy Fashion, High-Tech Toilets and Maid Cafes
AUTHOR: Written and drawn by Christine Mari Inzer WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 915.204 Inz - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: The summer before she turned sixteen, Christine Inzer traveled solo to Tokyo to get reacquainted with her birthplace. In drawings, photographs, and musings, she describes her journey through Japan, as she explores the fashion hub of Harajuku, hunts down geisha in Kyoto, eats the best sushi of her life in Tsukiji, and meets many interesting people along the way. |
TITLE: Girl in Translation
AUTHOR: Jean Kwok WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Kwo - NOVELS SUMMARY: Ah-Kim Chang and her mother immigrate to Brooklyn, where they work for Kim's Aunt Paula in a Chinatown clothing factory earning barely enough to keep them alive; however, Kim's perseverance and hard work earns her a place at an elite private school where she is befriended by Annette, who helps her adjust to American culture. |
TITLE: American Born Chinese
AUTHOR: Gene Luen Yang WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Yan - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture. Presented in comic book format. |
TITLE: The Joy Luck Club
AUTHOR: Amy Tan WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Tan - NOVELS SUMMARY: In 1949 four Chinese women began meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong. They called their gathering the Joy Luck Club. Forty years later they look back and remember. |
TITLE: Crossing
AUTHOR: Andrew Xia Fukuda WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Fuk - MYSTERY SUMMARY: Xing Xu, generally ignored by his classmates at the all-white Slackenkill High School in upstate New York, takes advantage of his "invisibility" to investigate when a series of mysterious disappearances rock the community, not realizing that his otherness has made him a suspect. |
TITLE: Asian Mythology: A Captivating Guide to Chinese Mythology, Japanese Mythology and Hindu Mythology
AUTHOR: Matt Clayton WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 398.2 Cla SUMMARY: Entries on the gods, demons, spirits, and creatures that shape the myths, legends, and religions of China, Japan, and Hindu. |
TITLE: Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee-A Look Inside North Korea
AUTHOR: Jang Jin-Sung WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Jan SUMMARY: In this insider's view into contemporary North Korea, a high-ranking counterintelligence agent describes his life as a former poet laureate to Kim Jong-il and his escape to freedom. |