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• The Tree Doctor

  a Novel

  Mockett, Marie Mutsuki,

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  When the unnamed narrator of Marie Mutsuki Mockett’s stirring second novel returns to Carmel, California, to care for her mother, she finds herself stranded at the outset of the disease. With her husband and children back in Hong Kong, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Real Americans

  a Novel

  Khong, Rachel, 1985-

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  In this intricately woven tapestry of class and striving, race and visibility, and family and inheritance, 15-year-old Nick Chen, who cannot shake the feeling his mother is hiding something, sets out to find his biological father--a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Feeding Ghosts

  a Graphic Memoir

  Hulls, Tessa, 1984-

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  In her evocative, genre-defying graphic memoir, Tessa Hulls tells the story of three generations of women in her family: her Chinese grandmother, Sun Yi; her mother, Rose; and herself. Extensively researched and gorgeously rendered,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Fetishist

  a Novel

  Min, Katherine,

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  Determined to get revenge on the man who seduced her mother then callously dropped her, leading to her death, Kyoko, a Japanese American punk-rock singer full of rage and grief, finds nothing going according to plan when she sets in motion…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Fox Wife

  a Novel

  Choo, Yangsze,

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  "In 1908 Manchuria, Bao, a detective with an uncanny ability to sniff out the truth, is hired to uncover the identity of a dead courtesan, while a secretive woman named Snow, seeking vengeance for her lost child, navigates the myths and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• River East, River West

  a Novel

  Lescure, Aube Rey,

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  "Set against the backdrop of developing modern China, a new novel is a coming-of-age tale, part family and social drama, as it follows two generations searching for belonging and opportunity in a rapidly changing world."

• A Quantum Love Story

  Chen, Mike,

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  "When strangers Mariana Pineda and Carter Cho get stuck together repeating the same four days, finally reaching Friday might mean having to give up the connection growing between them."

• Songs on Endless Repeat

  Essays and Outtakes

  So, Anthony Veasna, 1992-2020,

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  "Gathering together the late author's comic, soulful essays along with previously unpublished fiction, this astonishing final expression explores family, queer desire, pop culture and race."

• The Spy Coast

  a Thriller

  Gerritsen, Tess,

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  "When a body turns up in her driveway, former spy Maggie Bird, forced into retirement after a mission went tragically wrong, turns to her “Martini Club” of former spies to help her uncover the truth about who is trying to kill her, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Man of Two Faces

  a Memoir, a History, a Memorial

  Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971-

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  "Exploring the necessity of both forgetting and of memory, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood, colonization and ideas about Vietnam and America as well as a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Happiness Falls

  a Novel

  Kim, Angie, 1969-

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  "Mia isn't initially concerned when her family fails to return from a walk, until her mute brother Eugene, who suffers from a rare genetic condition, returns bloody and alone and is unable to describe what happened to their father."

• The Water Outlaws

  Huang, S. L.,

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  "Lin Chong is an expert arms instructor, training the Emperor's soldiers in sword and truncheon, battle axe and spear, lance and crossbow. Unlike bolder friends who flirt with challenging the unequal hierarchies and values of Imperial…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• They Called Us Exceptional

  and Other Lies That Raised Us

  Gupta, Prachi (Journalist),

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  "Prachi Gupta’s family embodied the American Dream: a doctor father and a nurturing mother who raised two high-achieving children with one foot in the Indian American community, the other in Pennsylvania’s white suburbia. But their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Excavations

  a Novel

  Michell, Hannah,

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  "Sae is waiting with two clingy toddlers for her husband to come home from work when she learns of a horrific disaster, the collapse of a massive skyscraper where Jae is an engineer. Minutes, then hours, and then days pass. Speculations of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Deep Sky

  Kitasei, Yume,

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  "When a lethal bomb knocks the The Phoenix—a ship carrying humanity’s last hope—off course, Asuka, the only surviving witness, is an immediate suspect and with the crew turning on each other, she is determined to find the culprit before…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Orphan Bachelors

  a Memoir : on Being a Confession Baby, Chinatown Daughter, Baa-bai Sister, Caretaker of Exotics, Literary Balloon Peddler, and Grand Historian of a Doomed American Family

  Ng, Fae Myenne, 1956-

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  "Raised by a seafaring father and a seamstress mother, by San Francisco's Chinatown and its legendary Orphan Bachelors -- men without wives or children -- the author recounts how her family built a life in a country bent on exclusion and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Yellowface

  a Novel

  Kuang, R. F. (Rebecca F.),

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  "Ever since they met at Yale as freshmen, June Hayward has watched Athena Liu grow into a writer and best-selling author, while June can barely get publishers to look twice at her debut. When Athena dies in a freak incident, June finds and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Quantum Supremacy

  How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything

  Kaku, Michio,

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  "The runaway success of the microchip processor may be reaching its end. Running up against the physical constraints of smaller and smaller sizes, traditional silicon chips are not likely to prove useful in solving humanity’s greatest…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Your Love Is Not Good / Johanna Hedva

  Hedva, Johanna, 1984-

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  "At an otherwise forgettable party in Los Angeles, a queer Korean American painter spots a woman who instantly controls the gorgeous and distant and utterly white, the center of everyone’s attention. Haunted into adulthood by her Korean…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Great Reclamation

  Heng, Rachel,

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  "With the future of their fishing village in jeopardy after the Japanese army invades Singapore, Ah Boon, gifted with the unique ability to locate bountiful, movable islands that no one else can find, and Siok Mei, the spirited girl he has…Read moreRead more of this annotation