Asian & Asian American
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Boy Wander: A Coming of Age Memoir
$23.95 Add to cartWinner First Place in both the LGBTQ Non-fiction and First-time Non-fiction categories of the 2023 International Firebird Book Awards!
Boy wonder by day. Boy toy by night.
A child TV personality from a
- Author: Abueva, Jobert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1955826277
- Language: English
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Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
$28.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST – NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER – ONE OF TIME‘S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE – A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged, and utterly orig… [more below]
- Author: Hong, Cathy Park
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1984820362
- Language: English
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The White Mosque: A Memoir
$17.95 Add to cartLonglisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award
A historical tapestry of border-crossing travelers, of students, wanderers, martyrs and invaders, The White Mosque is a memoiristic, prismatic record of a- Author: Samatar, Sofia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1646222032
- Language: English
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American Grit: From a Japanese American Concentration Camp Rises an American War Hero
$15.99 Add to cartAmerican Grit is a compelling narrative about racial identity, resilience, and heroism.
In 2008, John Suzuki embarks on a poignant journey to Minidoka, one of the ten former U.S. concentration camps a
- Author: Suzuki, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: May 29 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988370604
- Language: English
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Slanted: How an Asian American Troublemaker Took on the Supreme Court
$26.99 Add to cart“Racist. Hero. Stubborn. Fighter. Chink.
I’ve been called many things on the way to this moment, but ironically, I’ve never been called ‘a slant.’“When Simon Tam started an Asian American dance rock b
- Author: Tam, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: April 30 2019
- ISBN10: 1733629106
- Language: English
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Put It on Record: A Memoir-Archive
$21.00 Add to cartCambodian Author and Opera Librettist Releases Memoir.
Groundbreaking memoir by Cambodian author Sokunthary Svay. An unconventional collection of essays and photographs, PUT IT ON RECORD: A MEMOIR-ARCH
- Author: Svay, Sokunthary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 30 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988165545
- Language: English
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Secrets of the Sun: A Memoir
$19.95 Add to cartMako Yoshikawa’s father, Shoichi, was a man of contradictions. He grew up fabulously wealthy in prewar Japan but spent his final years living in squalor; he was a proper Japanese man who craved societ… [more below]
- Series: 21st Century Essays
- Author: Yoshikawa, Mako
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 08 2024
- ISBN10: 081425893X
- Language: English
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The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging
$18.95 Read moreAn unflinching look at the challenges and misunderstandings mixed-race people face in family spaces and intimate relationships across their varying cultural backgrounds
In this emotionally powerful an- Author: Mehta, Samira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0807013366
- Language: English
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Anna May Wong: From Laundryman’s Daughter to Hollywood Legend
$16.99 Read moreAnna May Wong remains one of Hollywood’s best-known Chinese American actors.
Between 1919 and 1960, Anna May Wong starred in over fifty movies, sharing billing with stars such as Douglas Fairbanks Sr- Author: Hodges, Graham Russell Gao
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1641608838
- Language: English
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The Loneliest Americans
$20.00 Add to cartA “provocative and sweeping” (Time) blend of family history and original reportage that explores–and reimagines–Asian American identity in a Black and white world
“[Kang’s] exploration of class and- Author: Kang, Jay Caspian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0525576231
- Language: English
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House of Sticks: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartNew York City Book Awards Hornblower Award Winner
One of Vogue and NPR’s Best Books of the Year This beautifully written “masterclass in memoir” (Elle) recounts a young girl‘s journey from war-torn Vi- Author: Tran, Ly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 150111882X
- Language: English
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Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartThis “graceful, captivating” (New York Times Book Review) story from a singular new talent paints a portrait of grief and the search for meaning as told through the prism of three generations of her C… [more below]
- Author: Chow, Kat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 153871633X
- Language: English
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The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging
$24.95 Read moreAn unflinching look at the challenges and misunderstandings mixed-race people face in family spaces and intimate relationships across their varying cultural backgrounds
In this emotionally powerful an- Author: Mehta, Samira
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: January 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807026360
- Language: English
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Fighting for America: Nisei Soldiers
$19.95 Add to cartThe last installment in a series of graphic novels that began with We Hereby Refuse (Washington State Book Award Finalist) and Those Who Helped Us:
This book tells the stories of six courageous Japane
- Author: Matsuda, Lawrence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 163405055X
- Language: English
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Making a Scene
$29.00 Read more“Illuminating.” —The Washington Post * “Candid and relatable.” —Time *“Riveting and personal.” –Mindy Kaling * “Captivatingly immediate.” —The Skimm *
A “poignant, frank, and intimate” (The New Yo- Author: Wu, Constance
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1982188545
- Language: English
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End Credits: How I Broke Up with Hollywood
$27.99 Add to cartWhat happens when you land your dream job and everything you’ve been working toward becomes a complete nightmare? This is Patty Lin’s story. She climbed the ladder as an award-winning television write
- Author: Lin, Patty
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 9798985282887
- Language: English
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Untigering: Peaceful Parenting for the Deconstructing Tiger Parent
$16.99 Add to cartPeaceful parenting is hard enough for the average parent. Imagine trying to do it when you have the instincts of a tiger mother.
In Untigering, Iris Chen shares her journey of leaving behind authorita
- Author: Chen, Iris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: March 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1736825402
- Language: English
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I Can’t Forget the Bomb: Barefoot Gen and the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima: A Memoir
$9.99 Add to cartCartoonist Keiji Nakazawa was six years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on his hometown of Hiroshima. In this memoir, Nakazawa recounts his wartime childhood, and his experience surviving the ato… [more below]
- Author: Nakazawa, Keiji
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0867198966
- Language: English
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Under the Naga Tail: A True Story of Survival, Bravery, and Escape from the Cambodian Genocide
$26.95 Read moreA courageous and poignant memoir of one young man’s daring escape from Cambodia’s genocidal regime
Forced from his home by the Khmer Rouge, teenager Mae Taing struggles to endure years of backbreaking- Author: Taing, Mae Bunseng
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 9798886450187
- Language: English
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Brown Boy: A Memoir
$0.00 Read moreAn uncompromising portrait of identity, family, religion, race, and class that “cuts to the bone” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) told through Omer Aziz’s incisive and luminous prose.
In a tough n- Author: Aziz, Omer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 04, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982136316
- Language: English
