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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Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong’s Rendezvous with American History
$18.99 Add to cartBorn into the steam and starch of a Chinese laundry, Anna May Wong (1905-1961) emerged from turn-of-the-century Los Angeles to become Old Hollywood’s most famous Chinese American actress, a screen sir
- Author: Huang, Yunte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 132409513X
- Language: English
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Mao’s America: A Survivor’s Warning
$19.99 Add to cartTHE BOOK BEHIND THE VIRAL TUCKER CARLSON INTERVIEW
An inspiring survivor of Mao’s Cultural Revolution in China makes a passionate case that history is eerily repeating itself as the Woke Revolution s- Author: Van Fleet, XI
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1546006311
- 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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I Decided to Live as Me: An Illustrated Checklist for How to Stop Comparing Yourself to Others So You Can Learn to Love Yourself
$28.00 Add to cartThe million-copy internationally bestselling illustrated life guide about how to stop comparing yourself to others–especially on social media–and how to find the strength to be yourself
In a world w- Author: Suhyun, Kim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0143138227
- Language: English
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I’m Laughing Because I’m Crying: A Memoir
$29.00 Add to cartFrom standup comedian Youngmi Mayer, an unforgettable memoir written with “raw, enviable freedom that simply floors you,” interrogating whiteness, gender, and sexuality in America, navigating a tumult
- Author: Mayer, Youngmi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0316569232
- Language: English
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Nimrods: A Fake-Punk Self-Hurt Anti-Memoir
$19.95 Add to cartIn Nimrods, Kawika Guillermo chronicles the agonizing absurdities of being a newly minted professor (and overtired father) hired to teach in a Social Justice Institute while haunted by the inner ghost… [more below]
- Author: Guillermo, Kawika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1478024925
- 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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Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America
$21.95 Read moreForeword by Janet Yellen
Weijian Shan’s Out of the Gobi is a powerful memoir and commentary that will be one of the most important books on China of our time, one with the potential to re-shape how Am
- Author: Shan, Weijian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1394172583
- Language: English
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Leaving: How I Set Myself Free from an Abusive Marriage
$17.95 Read moreAs a young woman in New Delhi, Kay Bhaskar enters into an arranged marriage to a social charmer-only to find that her new husband is an alcoholic with a wildly violent streak, and the system in India … [more below]
- Author: Bhaskar, Kanchan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1647424755
- 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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Mistaken for an Empire: A Memoir in Tongues
$21.95 Read more“As an adult, [Imperial] attempted what no one else had done: translating [‘The White Man’s Burden’] into Tagalog. These efforts led Imperial to reflect on her many (often disorienting) moves between … [more below]
- Series: 21st Century Essays
- Author: Imperial, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0814258638
- 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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Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart: A Memoir
$18.95 Read moreFinalist for the 2024 Forest of Reading Evergreen Book Award
This beautifully intimate memoir-in-pie
Named a Best Book of 2023 by the Globe and Mail and Apple Books Canada
A TODAY Show Recommended Read- Author: Lee, Jen Sookfong
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0771025211
- 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
