Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Fiction
Enjoy a variety of recent fiction penned by Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander authors, selected by our librarians. (Created August 2024) Annotations from NoveList, unless otherwise specified.
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The Stardust Grail
Maya Hoshimoto was once the best art thief in the galaxy. For ten years, she returned stolen artifacts to alien civilizations—until a disastrous job forced her into hiding. Now she just wants to enjoy a quiet life as a graduate student of anthropology, but she’s haunted by persistent and disturbing visions of the future. Then an old friend comes to her with a job she can’t refuse: find a powerful object that could save an alien species from extinction. Except no one has seen it in living memory, and they aren’t the only ones hunting for it.
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The Liberators
Adrift in a new country, South Korean expat Insuk grieves the loss of her past and her divided homeland, finding herself drawn into an illicit relationship that sets into motion a dramatic saga and echoes for generations to come.
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How to End A Love Story
Helen Zhang hasn’t seen Grant Shepard once in the thirteen years since the tragic accident that bound their lives together forever. Now a bestselling author, Helen has even scored a coveted spot in the writers’ room of the TV adaptation of her popular young adult novels. Grant has done everything possible to move on from the past. He knows he shouldn’t have taken the job on Helen’s show, but it will open doors that he just can’t pass up. When secrets come to light, they must reckon with the fact that theirs was never meant to be any kind of love story. And yet… the key to making peace with their past - and themselves - might just lie in holding on to each other in the present.
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Lies and Weddings
Forced by to attend his sister's wedding to seduce a woman with money and get his family out of debt, Rufus, the future Earl of Greshambury, finds their plans--and their reputation--going up in flames when a secret tryst and tragedy become known, revealing a shocking twist.
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Auē
Taukiri was born into sorrow. Aue 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. It spills out of the gang violence that killed his father and sent his mother into hiding, and the shame he feels about abandoning his eight-year-old brother to another violent home. But Arama is braver than he looks, and he has a friend and his friend has a dog, and the three of them together might just be strong enough to turn back the tide of sorrow. As long as there's aroha to give and stories to tell and a good supply of plasters.
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The Fetishist
Determined to get revenge on the man who seduced her mother then callously dropped her, leading to her death, Kyoko, a Japanese American punk-rock singer full of rage and grief, finds nothing going according to plan when she sets in motion a series of unexpected reckonings.
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Death in the Air
A novel that is both a sophisticated locked-room mystery in the tradition of Agatha Christie, and a provocative literary whodunit for the 21st century.
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Welcome Me to the Kingdom
Set across the temples, slums and gated estates of late 20th-century Bangkok, three families -- a Thai Elvis impersonator and his only daughter, a family abandoned by their white American patriarch and an adopted brotherhood of orphaned boys -- search for reinvention in a city unmade by a financial crisis.
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You Know What You Did
When her mother, a Vietnam War refugee, dies suddenly, Annie Shaw finds her OCD coming back with a vengeance, and when the investigation zeroes in on her, her mind increasingly fractures and the only thing she knows is this: she will do anything to protect her daughter even if it means losing herself.
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The Night of the Storm
Hunkering down with her sister in her fancy house in Sugar Land, along with her brother-in-law's family, as Hurricane Harvey bears down on Houston, single mom Jia Shah and her 12-year-old son, Ishaan, finds tensions escalating along with the storm, resulting in murder.
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