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• Read Dangerously

  the Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times

  Nafisi, Azar,

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  Drawing on her experiences as a woman and voracious reader in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a multi-award-winning New York Times best-selling author explores the most probing questions of our time, arming readers with a resistance reading list that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• An Inconvenient Minority

  the Attack on Asian American Excellence and the Fight for Meritocracy

  Xu, Kenny,

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  Journalist Kenny Xu traces elite America’s longstanding unease about a minority potentially upending them. An Inconvenient Minority chronicles the political and economic repression and renaissance of a long ignored racial identity group―and how they…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Counting Down With You

  Bhuiyan, Tashie,

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  Karina Ahmed's parents have a lot of rules, and for her it is worth it to follow those rules instead of her dreams. With her parents in Bangladesh for a month, she expects to relax those rules a bit, but when the guy she's tutoring says she's his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Crying in H Mart

  a Memoir

  Zauner, Michelle,

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  Zauner, of indie band Japanese Breakfast, presents a memoir about growing up Korean-American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. It was her mother's diagnosis of terminal pancreatic cancer, when Michelle was twenty-five, that forced a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Yolk

  Choi, Mary H. K,

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  Jayne and June are nothing alike. Their family moved from Seoul to San Antonio and finally New York. The sisters don't want anything to do with each other... until June gets cancer. And Jayne becomes the only one who can help her. Now, flung…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Parasite

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  Greed and class discrimination threaten the relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan in Bong Joon Ho's darkly hilarious modern fairytale. Multiple award winning movie.

• Behind the Beautiful Forevers

  [Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity]

  Boo, Katherine

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  In this breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Joy Luck Club

  Tan, Amy

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  Where were you when you first read The Joy Luck Club? Treat yourself to one of the books that put Asian American writing on the American radar, and inspired one of the tear-jerking-ist movies, ever.

• Pachinko

  Lee, Min Jin,

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  Pachinko follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them all.

• PBS Books: Amy Tan - Trailblazing American Women Writers Project Series

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  Join PBS Books in celebrating acclaimed author of The Joy Luck Club and Bay Area-native, Amy Tan! Part of their Trailblazing American Women Writers Project, PBS Books will host author Amy Tan in conversation with actress Tamlyn Tomita on Thursday,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Drawn Together

  Le, Minh, 1979-

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  Drawn Together is the first collaboration between Minh Lê [LAY] and Dan Santat, and it received six starred reviews and won the APALA (Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association) Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in 2019. It was also on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• PBS Books: Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Celebration

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  In celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, PBS Books presented a live discussion with author Minh Lê and illustrator Dan Santat about their book Drawn Together. Watch the replay here!

• Whale Rider

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  A small Maori village faces a crisis when the heir to the leadership of the Ngati Konohi dies at birth and is survived only by his twin sister, Pai. Although disregarded by her grandfather and shunned by the village people, twelve-year-old Pai…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• See You in the Cosmos

  Cheng, Jack, 1983-

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  An El Cerrito Library Tween Book Club Favorite: This heartbreakingly honest, refreshingly pure story is told by Alex Petroski (11 years old but at least 13 in responsibility years) who records his thoughts and daily experiences as he embarks on a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Leavers

  Ko, Lisa,

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  Deming is a child left behind by his mother Polly, an undocumented Chinese immigrant, then adopted by two white parents and is renamed Daniel Wilkinson. Questions abound: where is his birth mom, Polly? What is Denning's identity/place in this world?…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Picture Us in the Light

  Gilbert, Kelly Loy,

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  Putting your own high school years in sharp focus perspective, Gilbert's novel tells what it's like growing up Asian American in Silicon Valley - the pressures, the expectations, the family. It's such a good read, but be armed with tissue.

• I Hotel

  Tei, Yamashita, Karen

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  The International Hotel housed low-income residents, many of whom were migrant laborers from the Philippines and China. Located at the edge of San Francisco’s Chinatown, the hotel was slated for demolition to make room for “urban renewal." In the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Woman Warrior

  Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

  Kingston, Maxine Hong

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  An absolute classic from Bay Area writer Maxine Hong Kingston, a blend of autobiographical perspective and Chinese folktales, a first-generation-Chinese-American-woman's love letter to her world.

• Chan Is Missing

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  Follows the adventures of two cabbies on their search through San Francisco's Chinatown for a mysterious character who has disappeared with $4000 of their money. Their quest to figure out what happened to Chan and their missing cash leads them on a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dear Girls

  Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, and Advice for Living Your Best Life

  Wong, Ali,

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  In this hilariously delightful memoir, comedian Ali Wong (of San Francisco!) shares the wisdom she's learned from a life in comedy and reveals stories from her life off stage, including the brutal singles life in New York, reconnecting with her…Read moreRead more of this annotation