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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Auē
Taukiri was born into sorrow. Auē can be heard in the sound of the sea he loves and hates, and in the music he draws out of the guitar that was his father's. Raw and sublime, introducing a compelling new voice in New Zealand fiction.
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Know You by Heart
In this sequel to It Takes Heart, Chris Puso's marriage of convenience to Eden, a woman he admired but didn’t love, has become, well, a little inconvenient.
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The Human Zoo
Filipino-American Christina "Ting" Klein travels to an increasingly repressive Manila, both to escape her imminent divorce and to begin research for a biography of Timicheg, an indigenous Filipino brought to America to be exhibited as part of a "human zoo."
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How High We Go in the Dark
A spellbinding and profoundly prescient debut that follows a cast of intricately linked characters over hundreds of years as humanity struggles to rebuild itself in the aftermath of a climate plague.
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Under Lock & Skeleton Key
Tempest Raj, while visiting her dad's latest renovation project, discovers the body of her former stage double and wonders if she was the original target, and as she dives into this impossible mystery, she wonders if the Raj family curse has finally come for her.
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So We Meet Again
When her cooking channel becomes an media company with the help of M&A lawyer Daniel Choi, Jess Kim falls in love with the man who happens to work for the company she just recently quit in a spectacular fashion.
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Tell Me How to Be
Widow Renu embarks on an emotional affair with a man she almost married while her son slips back into old habits, forcing both of them to choose between the lives they left behind and the ones they've since created.
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The Verifiers
Stealth-recruited by online-dating detective agency Veracity, Claudia breaks protocol to investigate and uncovers a maelstrom of personal and corporate deceit, when a client mysteriously disappears.
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The Foley Artist
This powerful debut collection opens new regions of American feeling and thought, giving voice to the intersectional identities of women and men in the Filipino diaspora in America.
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Sari, Not Sari
The beautiful young CEO of a successful company helping people manage their breakups, Manny Dogra has an identity crisis and makes a deal with an irritating client who agrees to give her a crash course in being “Indian.”
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