Asian American and Pacific Islander Fiction
Enjoy a variety of fiction from the past year penned by Asian American and Pacific Islander authors, selected by our librarians. (Created April 2022).
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Good Intentions
A young, British Pakistani man, Nur, falls in love with Yasmina, a beautiful aspiring, black journalist and starts down a path of self-destruction as he tries to please both his strict family and his girlfriend.
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Bibliolepsy
Winner of the 1997 Philippine National Book Award, Gina Apostol’s debut novel, available for the first time in the US, tells of a young woman caught between a lifelong desire to escape into books and a real-world revolution.
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Mother Ocean Father Nation
Follows a brother and sister whose paths diverge--one forced to leave, one left behind--in the wake of a nationalist coup in the South Pacific.
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Seeking Fortune Elsewhere
These intimate short stories of South Indian immigrants and the families they left behind center women's lives and ask how women both claim and surrender power.
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The School for Good Mothers
After a very bad day, harried working mother Frida Liu is subject to a dystopian state-run reform program where "bad mothers" are retrained using robot doll children with artificial intelligence.
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The Family Chao
When Big Leo Chao drops dead in his own restaurant, his three sons struggle with the legacy of their father's outsized appetites, in a contemporary Chinese-American version of The Brothers Karamazov.
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Counterfeit
This incisive and glittering blend of fashion, crime and friendship is the story of two Asian American women who band together to grow a counterfeit handbag scheme into a global enterprise.
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Activities of Daily Living
How do we take stock of a life-by what means, and by what measure? This is the question that preoccupies Alice, aTaiwanese immigrant in her late thirties, in this lucid and moving novel on the interconnection between work and life.
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Edge Case
When her husband suddenly disappears, a young woman must uncover where he went-and who she might be without him-in this striking debut of immigration, identity, and marriage. A searing meditation on intimacy, estrangement, and the fractured nature of identity.
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Skinship
Centering around Korean American families, this debut from a master of short fiction presents a searing look at the failure of intimacy to show us who the people we love truly are.
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