Asian & Asian American
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The Autobiography of H. LAN Thao Lam
$18.00 Add to cartSituated between memoir, social criticism, and conceptual art, The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam is an incisive response to a modernist classic and an affecting exploration of the poetics and polit… [more below]
- Author: Lin, Lana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1948980290
- Language: English
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The Poet and the Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love, Imprisonment, and Protest
$22.00 Add to cartNow in paperback: A compelling and prismatic love story of one family’s defiance in the face of injustice–and how their story echoes across generations.
“Beautifully woven together by Satsuki Ina’s mo… [more below]
- Author: Ina, Satsuki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 159714696X
- Language: English
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Last Boat to Freedom
$16.00 Add to cartAt just eighteen years old, Sudhir Suchak made a daring escape from the island of Zanzibar in East Africa.
Fleeing a repressive regime, political violence, and the trauma of a genocide that tore apart
- Author: Suchak, Sudhir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: May 19 2025
- ISBN10: 9798998595202
- Language: English
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Patchwork: A Sewist’s Diary
$19.99 Add to cartIn Patchwork, a charming and evocative sewist’s diary, Maddie Ballard explores the making (and sometimes remaking) of seventeen specific garments over a period of great change in her life–from a jack… [more below]
- Author: Ballard, Maddie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1963108485
- Language: English
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Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging
$17.95 Add to cartA prize-winning memoirist and nature writer turns to the lives of plants entangled in our human world to explore belonging, displacement, identity, and the truths of our shared future
A seed slips bey- Author: Lee, Jessica J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1646222717
- Language: English
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The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong’s Greatest Dissident, and China’s Most Feared Critic
$28.99 Add to cartThe “extraordinary life story” (Publishers Weekly) of the billionaire businessman Jimmy Lai, a leading Hong Kong democracy activist fighting for freedom of speech who became China’s most famous politi… [more below]
- Author: Clifford, Mark L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1668027690
- Language: English
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Beyond the Mountains: An Immigrant’s Inspiring Journey of Healing and Learning to Dance with the Universe
$26.00 Read moreThe powerful story of how an immigrant from the Philippines overcame childhood trauma and an emotionally abusive marriage to find her voice and thrive
As a child in a small barrio in the Philippines,- Author: Prem, Deja Vu
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1640096450
- Language: English
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Dancing on My Own: Essays on Art, Collectivity, and Joy
$27.99 Add to cartA Literary Hub Most Noteworthy Nonfiction Book of 2024 – A Brooklyn Rail Best Art Book of 2024 – A The Millions and Hyperallergic Most Anticipated Book of 2024 – A Publishers Weekly Summer Reads Pick
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- Author: Wu, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 006331620X
- Language: English
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Fault Lines: A Memoir
$20.95 Add to cartIn this evocative memoir, now a foundational text in postcolonial studies, an acclaimed Indian poet explores writing, memory, and place in a post-9/11 world.
- Author: Alexander, Meena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 1936932997
- Language: English
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I Want to Die But I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki: Further Conversations with My Psychiatrist. the Sunday Times and Internationally Bestselling Sequel
$26.99 Add to cartTranslated by International Booker shortlistee Anton Hur, the sequel to the phenomenal South Korean smash hit.
Baek Sehee could never have predicted how many people I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tte- Series: I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki
- Author: Sehee, Baek
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1639732306
- Language: English
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Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen
$32.00 Add to cartFrom the renowned director of Crazy Rich Asians and Wicked comes a powerful, inspiring memoir of belonging, creativity, and learning to see who you really are.
“[Jon M. Chu] is a visionary. . . . He m- Author: Chu, Jon M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0593448944
- Language: English
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Little Seed
$18.95 Add to cartFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK of 2024
“Little Seed is what I want the future of literature to be.” -Sam Cohen, author of Sarahland
Little Seed is an experimen
- Author: Tchou, Wei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1646053362
- Language: English
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This Part Is Silent: A Life Between Cultures
$17.99 Add to cartBorn in Korea, raised in the American South, and trying her best to survive British academia, SJ Kim probes her experiences as a writer, a scholar, and a daughter to confront the silences she finds in
- Author: Kim, Sj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1324064765
- Language: English
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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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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
