Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - Asian & Asian American
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Bibliophobia: A Memoir
$29.00 Add to cart“A wise, tremendously moving exploration of what it means to seek companionship and understanding, in books and in life.”–Hua Hsu, author of Stay True
“A must for the obsessive reader.”–Elif Batuman… [more below]- Author: Chihaya, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 059359472X
- Language: English
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Black Box: The Memoir That Sparked Japan’s #Metoo Movement
$17.95 Add to cartBlack Box is a riveting, sobering memoir that chronicles one woman’s struggle for justice, calling for changes to an industry–and in society at large–to ensure that future victims of sexual assault
- Author: Ito, Shiori
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1952177979
- Language: English
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Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam
$22.00 Add to cartWinner of the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize
Catfish and Mandala is the
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Winner of the Whiting Writers’ Award
A Seattle Post-Intelligencer Best Book of the Year- Author: Pham, Andrew X.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 02 2000
- ISBN10: 0312267177
- Language: English
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You’ve Changed: Fake Accents, Feminism, and Other Comedies from Myanmar
$16.95 Read moreIn this electric debut essay collection, a Myanmar millennial playfully challenges us to examine the knots and complications of immigration status, eating habits, Western feminism in an Asian home, an… [more below]
- Author: War, Pyae Moe Thet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1646222008
- Language: English
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How I Survived a Chinese Reeducation Camp: A Uyghur Woman’s Story
$26.95 Read moreThe first memoir about the “reeducation” camps by a Uyghur woman.
“I have written what I lived. The atrocious reality.”
— Gulbahar Haitiwaji to Paris Match Since 2017, more than one million Uyghurs ha- Author: Haitiwaji, Gulbahar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1644211483
- Language: English
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Sang Kancil: A Tale about How Ordinary Malaysians Defied the Odds
$21.99 Read moreStories of courageous underdogs who battled against disadvantages and challenges, and emerged victorious in pushing humanity forward Ordinary is not as ordinary as you think. History is written by the… [more below]
- Author: Chai, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: December 15 2023
- ISBN10: 9815127136
- Language: English
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Prisoner #1056: How I Survived War and Found Peace
$27.00 Read more#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
An incredible immigrant story from a prominent Canadian Tamil who fled torture and imprisonment, arrived in
BRONZE MEDALIST IN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY FOR THE AXIOM BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS- Author: Ratnavel, Roy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 073524572X
- Language: English
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Brown Girl Like Me: The Essential Guidebook and Manifesto for South Asian Girls and Women
$18.99 Read moreYou might feel that this fight is too big for you. How on earth can you dismantle so many complex, long-standing systems of oppression? My answer: piece by piece.
Brown Girl Like Me is an inspiring me- Author: Kaur, Jaspreet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1529056357
- Language: English
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Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond
$18.95 Add to cartNEW IN PAPERBACK!
BOOKS ARE MAGIC 2023 HOLIDAY GIFT BOOK With humor and grace, the memoir of a first-generation Chinese American in New York City. Our Laundry, Our Town is a memoir that decodes and pr- Author: Eng, Alvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1531504833
- Language: English
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A Refugee’s American Dream: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to the U.S. Secret Service
$30.00 Read more“I saw many killed. I almost starved. But I escaped to refugee camps in Thailand and eventually made it to the U.S.” Thus begins Leth Oun’s poignant and vivid memoir. A survivor of the Cambodian Killi
- Author: Oun, Leth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: February 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1439923361
- Language: English
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Uncle Rico’s Encore: Mostly True Stories of Filipino Seattle
$24.95 Read moreFrom the 1950s through the 1970s, blue-collar Filipino Americans, or Pinoys, lived a hardscrabble existence. Immigrant parents endured blatant racism, sporadic violence, and poverty while their US-bor
- Author: Bacho, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0295749776
- Language: English
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The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father
$18.99 Read moreWinner of the 2017 Minnesota Book Award in Creative Nonfiction
Finalist for the Chautauqua Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN USA Literary Center Award, and the Dayton Literary Pea- Author: Yang, Kao Kalia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 09 2017
- ISBN10: 125013188X
- Language: English
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Beautiful Country: A Memoir
$28.95 Read moreA NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER – The moving story of an undocumented child living in poverty in the richest country in the world–an incandescent debut from an astonishing new talent – A TODAY SHOW #REA… [more below]
- Author: Wang, Qian Julie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0385547218
- Language: English
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The White Mosque: A Memoir
$27.00 Read moreWinner of the Bernard J. Brommel Award for Biography & Memoir (Midland Authors Book Award)
Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award A historical tapestry of border-crossing travelers, of students, w- Author: Samatar, Sofia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1646220978
- Language: English
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From Thorns to Blossoms: A Japanese American Family in War and Peace
$24.95 Add to cartMitsuko “Mitzi” Asai was not yet ten years old in the spring of 1942 when President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 sent 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry–about two-thirds of them US citizens–fr
- Author: Loftus, Mitzi Asai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1962645053
- Language: English
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Living the Asian Century: An Undiplomatic Memoir
$21.99 Add to cartIn this stirring memoir, a preeminent politician and diplomat traces the transformation of the Republic of Singapore from a poor colony into an Asian powerhouse.
In Living the Asian Century, Kishore- Author: Mahbubani, Kishore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1541703049
- Language: English
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Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor
$16.95 Add to cartEditors’ Choice, The New York Times Book Review
“The immigrant child longs to be understood and unload her truths, while simultaneously being tasked with preserving her parents’ humanity. . . Qu. . .- Author: Qu, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1646221524
- Language: English
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I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki: Conversations with My Psychiatrist
$17.99 Read moreThe internationally bestselling therapy memoir translated by International Booker Prize shortlisted Anton Hur.
PSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help you?
ME: I don’t know, I’m-what’s the word-depressed? Do I- Author: Sehee, Baek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1639732047
- Language: English
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Beautiful Country: A Memoir
$36.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER – The moving story of an undocumented child living in poverty in the richest country in the world–an incandescent debut from an astonishing new talent – A TODAY SHOW #REA… [more below]
- Author: Wang, Qian Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0593460014
- Language: English
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Jesus did many other things as well…BOOK TWO: More Short Stories Out of Japan
$12.00 Add to cartFollowing on his first book, Tony Schmidt is joined by his wife in presenting 16 more short stories of experiences from their 33 years as missionaries in Japan. Each story gives a glimpse of Japanese
- Author: Schmidt, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1775146227
- Language: English
