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"I just wanted to be myself, someone who would be free enough to move the line around, between Chinese and American within a wider range and far outside of the spectrum."
Mae Li is a Chinese-American graduate student trying to claim her independence as an adult while struggling with her identity. Mae meets Spirit, who takes her on journeys into her mother's childhood in rural Hainan during the 1970s and 80s. As Mae begins to understand more about...
63) Family Blossom
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For Anne, family is everything-but at what cost?
Anne is the happiest she's ever been, and her wedding is just around the corner. This is meant to be the biggest moment of her life-a chance to celebrate the love she has found with not only Sebastian but also her new-found family.
But Anne is the wealthiest woman in town and her upcoming nuptials provide an opportunity for her enemies to undo her newfound happiness. As the big day draws closer, the...
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When my family finds out that a corporate chain bakery is going to open right next to our shop, we can't help freaking out. I try to stay positive and tell my family that there's no way a soulless corporate chain's mooncakes could compare to Grandma's. But even without competition, our little bakery is struggling to make ends meet.When a gorgeous guy asks me out on a date, I think there might be some August Moon magic in the air.Then I discover that...
65) 1974: I-Migrant
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The seventh novella in the National Book Award Finalist I Hotel, following San Francisco's Asian-American community through the civil rights era.
Centered around the International Hotel, a historic low-income residence in San Francisco's Chinatown, the ten novellas of Karen Tei Yamashita's epic are each devoted to a single year in one of America's most transformative decades. This multi-voiced fusion of prose, playwriting, graphic art, and philosophy...
66) The Thorn Puller
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Winner of the Sakutaro Hagiwara Prize and the Murasaki
Shikibu Prize
Introducing Hiromi Ito, an award-winning Japanese author who has been compared to Haruki Murakami and Yoko Tawada.
The first novel to appear in English by award-winning author Hiromi Ito explores the absurdities, complexities, and challenges experienced by a woman
caring for her two families: her husband and daughters in California and her aging
parents in Japan. As the narrator...
67) Secret Blossom
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How many secrets could one family have?
After failing to find her uncle in Taiwan, Anne is back at Skyline Mansion and wants life to be quiet for a change. But when Harrison suddenly makes an appearance, only to disappear a few days later, her life is once again turned upside down.
When Anne receives Harrison's journal with a note requesting her to read it before she decides to search for him again, Anne takes the mission to heart. She once again...
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Join Sam Keene on a heartfelt journey of self-discovery in this compelling story. From the ashes of the Vietnam War, Sam's life takes an unexpected turn when she's adopted by an American soldier and his wife, who whisk her away to the bustling streets of Brooklyn. Yet, even amidst the vibrant tapestry of New York City, Sam grapples with a lingering question: Who is she really? After college, Sam's quest for identity leads her to the enchanting city...
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Anne Panning: In his debut collection, The Melting Season, Sukrungruang writes with compassion, humor and tenderness about the sting of cultural exclusion and isolation. His underdog characters make you root for them every step of the way, thanks to Sukrungruang's honest portrayal of their deep loneliness and family heartbreak. To sweeten the deal, the book simmers with food so delicious it will make you hungry for more.
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MEENA KAUL is riding high in her position as director of Behera House, a safe haven in India for women who have survived domestic violence. But when the stock market crashes, Behera House loses its funding to expand. The right-wing Hindu Democratic Party (HDP), seeing an opportunity to win women's votes before a national election, steps in with a multimillion-dollar grant. While Meena is reluctant to accept the offer, it is the only way for the project...
71) The Vision
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"You have been given a gift! Use it!" the guru said.All Divya wants is to become a great pathologist and save lives in order to redeem herself for a childhood blunder. But when her wish for a "good eye" comes true, she starts getting visions of the future. Terrified, Divya wonders if the guru is right or if she's losing her mind. Her estranged lover Krish follows her to Los Angeles, complicating her life as she struggles with her newfound ability....
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"I suppose I did it because I wanted something to show for the thirty years-longer than I had lived in my homeland-that I had been here in America. Something that was properly appreciated, even if someone else got all the credit."
Liu Qingwu doesn't set out to commit a crime. He only wants to sell a painting-something more substantial than the Impressionist knockoffs he flogs to tourists outside New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. But the lucrative...
73) Boingo!
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A new meta-game emerges in early autumn 2023 in east Charlotte (NC, USA). Agent 32 lends some near-post-match commentary. Malloy takes a pass. 1111 mots.
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Gum Moon (Cantonese for "Gold Door" or "Golden Gate") is the remarkable coming of age story of a Chinese-American girl, Mei Chun Lai, who is, sold in 1898 at the age of three to a cruel brothel keeper. A sympathetic prostitute befriends Chun, but two years later, at the height of a plague quarantine, Chun is, thrust into a bewildering new world. A young Methodist woman rescues her and places her in a Home for abused and trafficked girls. The Home...
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Fierce and bold, these beautiful stories provide a highly kinetic exploration of sameness and difference in terms of ethnic and racial origin. Through a romp of language-vital, outrageous, unpredictable-the fireworks of Neela Vaswani's original genius cast shadows and illumine psyches that conventional monovisions never perceive. If it is true, as one of Vaswani's characters claims, that a musical movement is the equivalent of a sentence, then the...
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A Historical Fantasy short inspired by the traditional ballad, "He Moved Through the Fair." Set in Monterey Bay of the early 1900's: Hana is Japanese and Cigno is Italian. On Cannery Row that means they are enemies. One day, Cigno and Hana experience a mysterious connection when Cigno stops fishermen, from harassing Hana at his cafe. Can they be together? Or will, hate and different cultures tear them apart?
77) I Pink I Can!
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"I Pink I Can! Made me laugh, cry, and taught me what it was really like for someone to go through breast cancer treatment." The last thing Mindy expected to hear as she sat in the doctor's office was that she had cancer. No one in her family had cancer. In fact, Mindy realized of all the things she thought her results might say, she would have guessed fibroadenoma before cancer! Even though she had always been sheltered by her overly adoring parents,...
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Seen and Unseen: Or, Monologues of a Homeless Snail (1897) is a collection of poems by Yone Noguchi. Written only three years after his arrival in San Francisco, these poems capture the emotions of a young man far from home. Fluent in English and adept with the open, flowing style of free verse, Noguchi remains unique in his vision of earthly life.
Noguchi's poems are songs of light and shadow, in tune with animals, seasons, spirits, and complex...
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