Pop-up Exhibit: Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

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Pop-up Exhibit: Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Subject

a selection of books, available through the Penn Libraries, chosen by Penn Students to highlight Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, May 2020

Creator

Penn Libraries, Library Resource Liaison Program

Collection Items

Story of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
One of my favorite books is "Stories of Your Life and Others," a science fiction short story collection by Ted Chiang. This may be oddly specific, but science fiction short stories are probably my favorite things to read, and Ted Chiang's are easily…

Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
A recent book by an Asian American author which I loved was Susan Choi's Trust Exercise, which won this year's National Book Award. Reviews for this book have been quite polarized, and when I read it with my English class last semester I was the only…

Coconut Milk by Dan Taulapapa McMullin
"The first collection by Samoan writer and painter Dan Taulapapa McMullin, the poems evoke both intimate conversations and provocative monologues that allow him to explore the complexities of being a queer Samoan in the United States..." University…

Paper Menagerie and other stories by Ken Liu
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories is a book written by prominent Asian American author Ken Liu. It tells the story told through the lens of young bi-racial boy named Jack, who has a white father and a Chinese mother. The story tells the…

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
Everything I Never Told you is a book that highlights the importance of family and expectations. The story follows every member of the Lee family and tells the story of how each character overcomes the loss of a family member. This book integrates…

Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
Kevin Kwan takes the reader into a world no one has ventured into, one laced with both privacy and opulence. Crazy Rich Asians gives us a tease into the life of the “über-rich” in East Asia, mansions, private planes and all their glory. It is told in…

A Single Square Picture by Katy Robinson
A touching and personal story about a Korean adoptee in America who returns to her homeland to discover her "true" identity.

"As a Korean-American, it's been tough trying to generalize or squeeze myself into a Korean or American identity. I've…

The Symphathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
A bemusedly yet deliberately written Vietnamese-American novel emphasizing the theme of duality through love and betrayal, Occident yet Oriental identities, and the importance or lack thereof of freedom. It gives a new perspective of what we take for…

Chemistry by Weike Wang
“It’s written by an Asian American female author (we love those) with an uncanny ability to poignantly capture the unspoken and often overlooked feelings of growing up as an Asian American in STEM (drawing from her own life!!) Her unpretentious prose…

Exhalation by Ted Chiang
"In the epistolary "Exhalation," an alien scientist makes a shocking discovery with ramifications not just for his own people, but for all of reality. And in "The Lifecycle of Software Objects," a woman cares for an artificial intelligence over…
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