Asian & Asian American
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Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi
$28.00 Add to cartA master of what he called “the sculpturing of space,” Isamu Noguchi was a vital figure for modern public art. Born to an American mother and a Japanese father, Noguchi never felt like he belonged any
- Author: Herrera, Hayden
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0374535981
- Language: English
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Fourth Uncle in the Mountain: The Remarkable Legacy of a Buddhist Itinerant Doctor in Vietnam
$26.00 Add to cartFourth Uncle in the Mountain is an odyssey of a single-father folk hero and his foundling son in a land ravaged by the atrocities of war. It is a classic story complete with humor, tragedy, and insigh
- Author: Nguyen, Quang Van
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 03 2006
- ISBN10: 0312314310
- Language: English
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We Take Our Cities with Us: A Memoir
$19.95 Add to cartEven when we leave them, our cities never leave us. After her Dutch mother’s death, Sorayya Khan confronts her grief by revisiting their relationship, her parents’ lives, and her own Pakistani-Dutch h… [more below]
- Series: Machete
- Author: Khan, Sorayya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0814258484
- Language: English
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A Runaway Teenager: Who Found Freedom
$16.99 Add to cartWhat is freedom worth to you?
At 14 years old, Quyen (Quin) Ha risked everything for a chance for a better life. Living under the communist regime in Viet Nam, Quyen saw his freedoms being taken away.
- Author: Ha, Quyen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 29 2021
- ISBN10: 1736849107
- Language: English
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Meher & Me: A Mother-Daughter Relationship Memoir About The Life We Choose For The Lessons We Will Learn
$18.99 Add to cartA Tale of an Unconventional Life and Courage Developed Through a Combination of Nature, Nurture, and Skills Acquired Along the Way.
My mother, Meher, believed that we choose our lives for the lessons w
- Author: Farah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: April 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1739355024
- Language: English
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The Grave on the Wall
$17.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2020 PEN Open Book Award
Best of 2019: Nonfiction – Entropy Magazine
A memoir and book of mourning, a grandson’s attempt to reconcile his own uncontested citizenship with his grandfather’s
- Author: Shimoda, Brandon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: July 30 2019
- ISBN10: 0872867900
- Language: English
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Meher & Me: A Mother-Daughter Relationship Memoir About The Life We Choose For The Lessons We Will Learn
$9.99 Add to cartA Tale of an Unconventional Life and Courage Developed Through a Combination of Nature, Nurture, and Skills Acquired Along the Way.
My mother, Meher, believed that we choose our lives for the lessons w
- Author: Farah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: April 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1739355008
- Language: English
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A Living Remedy: A Memoir
$19.99 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
Named a Best Book of the Year by: Time * Harper’s Bazaar * Esquire * Booklist * USA Today * Elle * Good Housekeeping * New York Times * Electric Literature * Today
From the
- Author: Chung, Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0063031620
- Language: English
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On Gold Hill: A Personal History of Wheat, Farming, and Family, from Punjab to California
$28.95 Read moreA young South Asian American woman’s story of reconnecting with her identity, family, and heritage through sustainable farming
In 2012, 25-year-old Jackie Moyer–the daughter of a forbidden marriage b- Author: Moyer, Jaclyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0807045306
- Language: English
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Sons of Chinatown: A Memoir Rooted in China and America
$35.00 Read moreWilliam Gee Wong was born in Oakland, California’s Chinatown in 1941, the only son of his father, known as Pop. Pop was born in Guangdong Province, China and emigrated to Oakland as a teenager during … [more below]
- Author: Wong, William Gee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1439924872
- Language: English
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A Faith of Many Rooms: Inhabiting a More Spacious Christianity
$23.99 Read moreWhen your faith begins to feel too small, too confining, you could choose to leave it. But what if the faith we inhabit is roomier than we’d thought? What if our collapsing faith is just a closet in a
- Author: Thomas, Debie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1506481450
- Language: English
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Remembering Shanghai: A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels
$19.95 Add to cartWINNER OF OVER 20 LITERARY AND DESIGN AWARDS including the Writer’s Digest Grand Prize and Rubery Book Award Book of the Year
True stories of glamour, drama, and tragedy told through five generations
- Author: Chao, Isabel Sun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1954854056
- Language: English
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Neurotic Beauty: An Outsider Looks at Japan
$27.50 Add to cartNeurotic Beauty is a remarkable reevaluation of Japan’s role in the modern world.
It includes a new assessment of the events leading up to the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima, and of the potential r
- Author: Berman, Morris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: June 18 2019
- ISBN10: 1621342107
- Language: English
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The Veil Between Two Worlds: A Memoir of Silence, Loss, and Finding Home
$17.95 Read moreJanuary 2021, mid-pandemic, Christina Vo-single, childless, and in her early forties–sets off on a road trip with a close friend in search of a new place to call home. What ensues is an illuminating … [more below]
- Author: Vo, Christina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 164742397X
- Language: English
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Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America
$18.99 Add to cartJulia Lee is angry. And she has questions.
What does it mean to be Asian in America? What does it look like to be an ally or an accomplice? How can we shatter the structures of white supremacy that fue- Author: Lee, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1250861578
- Language: English
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Southbound: Essays on Identity, Inheritance, and Social Change
$26.95 Add to cartA move at age ten from a Detroit suburb to Chattanooga in 1984 thrusts Anjali Enjeti into what feels like a new world replete with Confederate flags, Bible verses, and whiteness. It is here that she l
- Series: Crux: The Georgia Literary Nonfiction
- Author: Enjeti, Anjali
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0820360066
- Language: English
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Tse Tsan Tai (1872-1938): An Australian-Cantonese Opinion Maker in British Hong Kong
$34.95 Add to cartWho was Tse Tsan Tai? Insurrectionist? Socialite? Patriot? Revolutionary?
Born and raised in Australia and trained in Anglo-Hong Kong’s civil service, Tse Tsan Tai (1872-1938) was all of these and more
- Series: Asian Studies
- Author: Wang, Dong
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: June 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1915271843
- Language: English
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Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir
$19.00 Add to cartWinner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Rajiv Mohabir’s Antiman is an impassioned, genre-blending memoir that navigates the fraught constellations of race, sexuality, and cultura
- Author: Mohabir, Rajiv
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1632061686
- Language: English
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Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China’s Civil War
$27.95 Add to cartJun and Hong were scions of a once great southern Chinese family. Each other’s best friend, they grew up in the 1930s during the final days of Old China before the tumult of the twentieth century brou
- Author: Li, Zhuqing
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 0393541770
- Language: English
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A Glimpse of Greatness: The Memoir of Irineo Esperancilla
$12.95 Add to cartA Glimpse of Greatness captures the amazing experience of a Filipino American who quietly served his family, his country, and four presidents of the United States. As a US Navy personal steward, Irine
- Author: Dart, Melinda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0578373270
- Language: English
