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Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
x, 206 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"In "Auntland," a steady stream of aunts adjust to American life by sneaking surreptitious kisses from women at temple, buying tubs of strawberry ice-cream to prepare for citizenship tests, and hatching plans to name their daughter "Dog." In "The Chorus of Dead Cousins," ghost-cousins cross space, seas, and skies to haunt their live-cousin, wife to a storm-chaser. In "Xífù," a mother-in-law tortures a wife in increasingly unsuccessful attempts to...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Immigrant. Socialite. Magician. Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s American society-she has money, education, a killer golf handicap, and invitations to some of the most exclusive parties of the Jazz Age. She's also queer and Asian, a Vietnamese adoptee treated as an exotic attraction by her peers, while the most important doors remain closed to her. But the world is full of wonders: infernal pacts and dazzling illusions,...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
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"Asian Americans inhabit a purgatorial status: neither white enough nor black enough, unmentioned in most conversations about racial identity. In the popular imagination, Asian Americans are all high-achieving professionals. But in reality, this is the most economically divided group in the country, a tenuous alliance of people with roots from South Asia to East Asia to the Pacific Islands, from tech millionaires to service industry laborers. How...
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"In her hit Netflix comedy special Baby Cobra, an eight-month pregnant Ali Wong resonated so heavily that she became a popular Halloween costume. Wong told the world her remarkably unfiltered thoughts on marriage, sex, Asian culture, working women, and why you never see new mom comics on stage but you sure see plenty of new dads. The sharp insights and humor are even more personal in this completely original collection. She shares the wisdom she's...
Author
Publisher
HarperVia
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
160 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"Hongmei is the perfect Asian wife: beautiful, diligent, and passive. She lives a quiet life in Northern California with her husband, Glen, an intelligent and caring college professor. But when a mysterious person begins to email her, Hongmei can't resist and soon finds herself enthralled in a psychological cat-and-mouse game. Who is stalking her? And why does s/he know her deepest, darkest secrets? As Hongmei is forced to confront her own dark past...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When an American-born Chinese woman attends a wedding in Singapore with her boyfriend, she discovers that his family is very wealthy and other women in his social class are trying to date him.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Growing up in the friendly suburbs of Richmond, Virginia, Constance Wu was often scolded for having big feelings or strong reactions. 'Good girls don’t make scenes,' people warned her. And while she spent most of her childhood suppressing her bold, emotional nature, she found an early outlet in local community theater—it was the one place where big feelings were okay—were good, even. Acting became her refuge, her touchstone, and eventually her...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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Description
"The Flanagan sisters are as different as they come...When their house is vandalized with a shocking racial slur, Margaret rushes home from her summer internship in New York City. She expects outrage. Instead, her sister and mother would rather move on...For Annalie, this was meant to be a summer of new possibilities, and she resents her sister's sudden presence...For Margaret, the summer couldn't possibly get worse, until she crosses paths with someone...
10) Michelle Kwan
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
24 pages
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Description
"How did Michelle Kwan become an award-winning figure skater? Readers will learn all about this great Asian American athlete and the significant events in her life in this low-leveled biography."--Amazon.com.
11) Honey girl
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Formats
Description
"With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, Grace Porter goes on a girls' trip to Vegas to celebrate. She's a straight A, hardworking high achiever. She is not the kind of person who goes to Vegas and gets drunkenly married to a woman whose name she doesn't know . . . until she does exactly that. This one beautiful, spontaneous moment upends Grace's carefully laid life plans. Staggering under the weight of her parents' expectations, a struggling...
12) Patsy Mink
Author
Series
Publisher
Pebble Plus, an imprint of Capstone Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
24 pages
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Description
How did Patsy Mink become a member of Congress? Readers will learn all about this great Asian American politician and the significant events in her life in this juvenile biography.
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
304 pages
Description
Vanessa Yu never wanted to see people's fortunes-or misfortunes-in tea leaves. Ever since she can remember, Vanessa has been able to see people's fortunes at the bottoms of their teacups. To avoid blurting out fortunes, she converts to coffee, but somehow the fortunes escape and find a way to complicate her life and the lives of those around her. To add to this plight, her romantic life is so nonexistent that her parents enlist the services of a matchmaking...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xiii, 283 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"On a cold, gloomy night, twenty-three-year-old Kyoko stands in the rain with a knife in her hoodie’s pocket. Her target is Daniel, who seduced Kyoko’s mother then callously dropped her, leading to her death. But tonight, there will be repercussions. Following the unsuspecting Daniel home, Kyoko manages to get a rash kidnapping plot off the ground . . . and then nothing goes as planned. The Fetishist is the story of three people—Kyoko,...
Series
Criterion Collection volume 1188
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sixty-two year old Mrs. Tan wants to take a trip to China to pay her last respects to her ancestors. But her daughter Geraldine is still unmarried. This aging immigrant widow leaves her devoted daughter torn between filial duty and her own desires.
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