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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Disorientation
A struggling PhD student makes a shocking discovery about a famous Chinese American poet that sets into motion a series of escalating events, both humorous and fraught.
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How to Survive A Modern-day Fairy Tale
A quirky bookworm and internet celebrity falls for the CEO of a huge tech company hailed as the next Mark Zuckerberg, and the pair try to navigate their personal and professional differences together.
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The Emma Project
The fourth entry in Dev's heartwarmingly irresistible Jane Austen inspired rom com series, Emma gets a fresh Indian-American twist.
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Swimming Back to Trout River
Set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution, this lyrical novel follows a father’s determination to reunite his family before his daughter Junie’s 12th birthday, even if it means bringing painful family secrets to light.
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Peach Blossom Spring
Settling in America years after his turbulent childhood in China, Renshu, now Henry Dao, refuses to talk to his daughter about her heritage, determined to keep her safe in this new land despite being weighed down by his history.
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After Perfect
When the only man thirty-six-year-old Gabriella Stevens has ever loved walks out on her, she feels like her world is ending... but as she begins to forge her own way forward for the first time in her life, she discovers an inner resilience and strength that she never knew she possessed.
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Shadow Life
Kumiko's sweet life is shattered when Death's shadow swoops in to collect her. With her quick mind and sense of humor, Kumiko, with the help of friends new and old, is prepared for the fight of her life. But how long can an old woman thwart fate?
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Nuclear Family
Set in the months leading up to the 2018 nuclear missile false alarm, the members of a Korean family living in Hawai'i find themselves under suspicion, while their daughter gets constantly high as she witnesses her family's undoing.
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An Eternal Lei
In this sequel to Iced in Paradise, Leilani Santiago finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation that endangers her family and friends after saving a mysterious woman wearing a lei from drowning in Waimea Bay.
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Fiona and Jane
Two best friends since elementary school, both Taiwanese Americans, navigate their grown-up lives and discover their friendship strained by distance and unintended betrayals after Fiona Lin moves to New York and Jane Shen stays in California.
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