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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Same Bed Different Dreams
A wild, sweeping novel that imagines an alternate secret history of Korea and the traces it leaves on the present—loaded with assassins and mad poets, RPGs and slasher films, pop bands and the perils of social media.
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Pina
Abused and neglected in equal measure, nine-year-old Pina, keeper of secrets, watches as her family, descendants of warriors who once fended off European settlers, slowly buckles under the weight of tragedy and trauma.
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Lady Tan's Circle of Women
Sent into an arranged marriage, Tan Yunxian, forbidden to continue her work as a midwife-in-training as well as see her forever friend Meiling, is ordered to act like proper wife and seeks a way to continue treating women and girls from every level of society in 15th-century China.
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Love Can't Feed You
Queenie, her younger brother, and their elderly Chinese father arrive in the U.S. to reunite with her mother who has been working as a nurse in this chronicle of a Filipino-American family's struggle to rebuild their lives in Brooklyn.
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Banyan Moon
Follows three generations of Vietnamese American women reeling from the death of their matriarch, revealing the family's inherited burdens, buried secrets and unlikely love stories.
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The Covenant of Water
Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India's Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning-and in Kerala, water is everywhere.
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Linh Ly Is Doing Just Fine
Told with deadpan humor and brutal honesty, a debut novel follows Vietnamese American Linh Ly's unraveling as she reckons with the traumas of both her past and present.
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Land of Milk and Honey
Amid a global event affecting international food production a down on her luck chef lands a job at a commune on an Italian mountaintop where the elite dine on rare ingredients and her enigmatic boss and his enticing daughter have a vision for the future. (LibraryReads)
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