Asian & Asian American
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The Story Game
$17.95 Add to cartIn the humid dark of a eucalyptus-scented room, a woman named Hui lies on a mattress telling stories about herself to her listener, a little girl. She talks about her identity as the child of an immig… [more below]
- Author: Tjoa, Shze-Hui
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1959030752
- Language: English
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Meridian
$14.95 Add to cartMeridian maps the remarkable life of Kija Kim. From growing up during the Korean War, to studying in the United States (at a time when it was virtually unheard of for a young woman to get a graduate d… [more below]
- Author: Kim, Kija
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 19 2024
- ISBN10: 9798990310612
- Language: English
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Setsuko’s Secret: Heart Mountain and the Legacy of the Japanese American Incarceration
$29.95 Read moreAs children, Shirley Ann Higuchi and her brothers knew Heart Mountain only as the place their parents met, imagining it as a great Stardust Ballroom in rural Wyoming. As they grew older, they would co… [more below]
- Author: Higuchi, Shirley Ann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0299327809
- Language: English
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Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl
$27.99 Read moreFor readers of Crying in H Mart and Minor Feelings as well as lovers of the film Minari comes a “scorchingly honest…hugely evocative memoir” (Helen Macdonald, New York Times bestselling author of H … [more below]
- Author: Song, Hyeseung
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 166800366X
- Language: English
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The Translator’s Daughter: A Memoir
$24.95 Add to cartBorn in Taiwan, Grace Loh Prasad was two years old when the threat of political persecution under Chiang Kai-shek’s dictatorship drove her family to the United States, setting her up to become an acci… [more below]
- Series: Machete
- Author: Prasad, Grace Loh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0814258972
- Language: English
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Woman of Interest: A Memoir
$28.99 Read moreMOST ANTICIPATED READ and MUST READ OF 2024: The Millions, LitHub, Esquire, BookRiot, Bustle, Vulture, Boston Globe, Brit & Co, Southern Living
“Woman of Interest is a memoir wrapped in a mystery–an i
- Author: O’Neill, Tracy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 0063309866
- Language: English
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My Vietnam, Your Vietnam: A Father Flees. a Daughter Returns. a Dual Memoir.
$18.00 Add to cart“Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2024” —Ms. Magazine
A chronicle of the divergent journeys of a Vietnamese father, who fled his home country in desperation, and his American-born daughter, who vent
- Author: Vo, Christina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1953103464
- Language: English
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The Poet and the Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love, Imprisonment, and Protest
$35.00 Add to cartA compelling and prismatic love story of one family’s defiance in the face of injustice–and how their story echoes across generations.
“It is both overwhelming and affirming to imagine, in the midst o
- Author: Ina, Satsuki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1597146269
- Language: English
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American Flygirl
$28.00 Add to cartOne of WWII’s most uniquely hidden figures, Hazel Ying Lee was the first Asian American woman to earn a pilot’s license, join the WASPs, and fly for the United States military amid widespread anti-Asi… [more below]
- Author: Tate Ankeny, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0806542829
- Language: English
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The Way of Ronin: Defying the Odds on Battlefields, in Business and in Life
$30.00 Add to cartFrom Special Forces veteran and internationally respected teacher of Rōnin Tactics to streaming and videogame fan favorite, Tu Lam’s memoir will captivate, astonish, exhilarate, and even profound… [more below]
- Author: Lam, Tu
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1335490868
- Language: English
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Gamblers, Fraudsters, Dreamers & Spies: The Outsiders Who Shaped Modern Japan
$18.99 Add to cart“Bob Whiting came to the city as a stranger in a strange land in 1962 and stayed for five decades–he knows the dark alleys, the good whisky bars, the crooked politicians and the crooks, the baseball … [more below]
- Author: Whiting, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 4805317981
- Language: English
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Boat Baby: A Memoir
$29.99 Add to cartIn a memoir where heroism meets humor, NBC News anchor and correspondent Vicky Nguyen tells the story of her family’s daring escape from communist Vietnam and her unlikely journey from refugee to repo… [more below]
- Author: Nguyen, Vicky
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1668025566
- Language: English
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Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South Asian Star
$29.99 Add to cartMerle Oberon made history when she was announced as a nominee for the Best Actress Oscar in 1936. Hers was a face that “launched a thousand ships,” a so-called exotic beauty who the camera loved and f
- Author: Sen, Mayukh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324050810
- Language: English
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Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes
$16.99 Add to cartA Most Anticipated Book of 2023 from: LA Times * Boston Globe * The Millions * LitHub * Shondaland
By the New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning AFTERPARTIES comes a collection like no
- Author: So, Anthony Veasna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0063049945
- Language: English
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I’ll Love You Forever: Notes from a K-Pop Fan
$28.99 Add to cartJia Tolentino’s Trick Mirror meets Cathy Park Hong’s Minor Feelings in a meditation that blends memoir and cultural criticism to explore how the author’s love affair with K-pop has shaped her sense of
- Author: Kwon, Giaae
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1250886236
- Language: English
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The Afterlife Is Letting Go
$17.95 Add to cart“The Afterlife Is Letting Go is a meditative consideration of Japanese American incarceration during WWII by Brandon Shimoda, author of the PEN Open Book Award-winning The Grave on the Wall.“–Matt Se
- Author: Shimoda, Brandon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0872869296
- Language: English
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Gambling Man: The Secret Story of the World’s Greatest Disruptor, Masayoshi Son
$29.99 Add to cartThe unputdownable first Western biography of SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, financial disruptor and personification of the 21st century’s addiction to instant wealth, from the former editor of the Financ… [more below]
- Author: Barber, Lionel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 166807074X
- Language: English
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You’ll Never Believe Me: A Life of Lies, Second Tries, and Things I Should Only Tell My Therapist
$29.00 Add to cartThe compelling, edgy, compassionate, laugh-out-loud memoir from Kari Ferrell, formerly known as the “Hipster Grifter”
Before Anna Delvey, before the Tinder Swindler, there was Kari Ferrell. Adopted at- Author: Ferrell, Kari
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1250288223
- Language: English
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A Remarkable Man: Dr. Shuntaro Hida from Hiroshima to Fukushima
$25.00 Add to cartA poignant, eye-opening portrait of a witness to the atomic bomb who dedicated his life to treating and advocating for radiation survivors.
As a young doctor, Shuntaro Hida (1917-2017) played an essen- Author: Petitjean, Marc
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 1635425433
- Language: English
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Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-Mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food
$19.99 Add to cartIn 1949, a young Chinese housewife arrived in Taiwan and transformed herself from a novice to a natural in the kitchen. She launched a career as a cookbook author and television cooking instructor tha
- Author: King, Michelle T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110481
- Language: English
