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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…

Ru is an autobiographical account of a young girl’s journey to Canada from Vietnam, and the emotional rollercoaster than comes along with change.

“It goes without saying that the book is written beautifully. Thuy has way of crafting universal…

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…

“I found it touches on really meaningful and nuanced themes, especially with repsect to second/third generation Asian-Canadian identities, advocation vs. voicelessness and Asian family dynamics.”

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…

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…

“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…

“Men without women, as much as some of it’s stories seem random and purposeless, is a wonderful analysis on the effect love has on individuals. There are many instances it shows the mental and physical consequences of love and lust. It also is a…

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 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…