The story of the poet's family shines a light on the Hmong exile from Laos to the United States after the Vietnam War. Stark and haunting images of nature and spirits convey the loss and anguish felt by many refugees due to the war and its aftermath.

Growing up in Oregon, Nicole Chung always believed the story her white adoptive parents told about her Korean immigrant birth parents. As an adult—and a pregnant mother-to-be—Chung discovers that her biological family and origin story are more complicated than she knew.

Som’s debut graphic short story collection envisions trans futures and thoughtfully explores ideas of gender, the body, and human connection against a sci-fi and fantasy backdrop in eight eerie stories.

A young Indian woman finds the false rumors that she killed her husband surprisingly useful--until other women in the village start asking for her help getting rid of their own husbands--in this razor-sharp debut.

This book delves into the forgotten history of Bengali men who arrived via Ellis Island as silk traders and ship workers, and who made new homes in Black, Hispanic, and Creole neighborhoods such as Harlem, Baltimore, Detroit, New Orleans, and beyond.

This deeply intimate illustrated memoir depicts Bui's family in war-torn Vietnam, their escape to the U.S., and the lasting effects of displacement. Bui lays bare and embraces the sacrifices made to ensure a new life for future generations.

Bestiary describes three generations of Taiwanese American women haunted by their homeland, with each embodying a mythical story. Chang’s energetic, inventive, and lyrical voice will resonate widely, especially with diasporic audiences.

Ayuyang chronicles growing up Filipino American in Pittsburgh, under the lights of disco and the silver screen in this colorful, exuberant graphic memoir.

This coming-of-age novel set in Brooklyn and Bangladesh follows the Saleems (patriarch Anwar, an apothecary owner; his wife, Hashi, a beauty salon owner; their teenage daughter, Charu; and college-student niece, Ella) as they deal with family secrets, affairs, and tragedy.

A young woman's rootless past and uncertain future collide when she brings her white fiancé home to meet her Chinese immigrant parents, toppling her carefully constructed life.

Ren Yu is a swimmer. Her daily life starts and ends with the pool. Her teammates are her only friends. Her coach, her guiding light. If she swims well enough, she will be scouted, get a scholarship, go to a good school. Her parents will love her. Her coach will be kind to her. She will have a good life.

Full title: Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life | Stories from the comedian's college study abroad experience in Vietnam, her struggles to break into the entertainment business, and her observations on love, family, food, and motherhood.

After living in the US for years, Maneka Roy returns home to India to mourn the loss of her mother and finds herself in a new world. The booming city of Hrishipur where her father now lives is nothing like the part of the country where she grew up, and the more she sees of this new, sparkling city, the more she learns that nothing--and no one--here is as it appears.

Journalist and editor Meredith Talusan tells her lifelong story of struggle and acceptance as an albino child in the Philippines, coming out at Harvard University, and later on, undergoing gender transition as an adult.

Four days before Christmas, 8-year-old Bo loses his mother in a tragic accident, 28-year-old Brandon loses his job after a hostile takeover of his big-media employer, and 48-year-old Blue, a key witness in a criminal trial against an infamous now-defunct tech startup, struggles to reconnect with his family. So begins Jinwoo Chong's dazzling, time-bending debut that blends elements of neo-noir and speculative fiction as the lives of Bo, Brandon, and Blue begin to intersect, uncovering a vast network of secrets and an experimental technology that threatens to upend life itself.

Asian diasporic writers—including Alexander Chee, Gaiutra Bahadur, Mia Alvar, Chang-Rae Lee, and more—meditate on the meaning of “home” through short stories, essays, and poetry in this timely, well-curated collection.

Emulating the original UK text, this new edition features writing by first- and second-generation immigrant authors as they reflect on America in the wake of the 2016 election. Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) voices shine throughout this compelling collection.

Jacob’s heartfelt graphic memoir invites readers into her life growing up as a first-generation American and examines questions about race, identity, politics, and love that she and her six-year-old son grapple with. Her use of photographic collage is particularly effective.

Faced with his father’s terminal illness and his own health issues, Chin grapples with grief and loss in this Lambda Award-nominated poetry collection. Chin died less than a decade later due to a stroke.

A novel that questions what it means to be Pakistani American and Muslim in a post-9/11 world. It blends autobiographical experiences about the author's relationship with his immigrant father, political conflicts and strife, wealth and debt, and love and loss.

Poetry that reflects on Asghar's identity as a queer Pakistani Muslim woman in America and the effects of both the 1947 India-Pakistan Partition and 9/11. Her poems are playful while confronting serious subjects with a distinctive voice, full of vibrancy and urgency.

Grieving her mother's death, Phoebe finds herself drawn into a secret extremist cult. When the cult commits an act of domestic terrorism and Phoebe disappears, her boyfriend, Will, struggles to understand the woman he thought he knew.

Apostol layers complex labyrinthian narratives to tell the story of two women—a filmmaker and a translator—creating rival scripts in Duterte’s Philippines. This meta-narrative is a haunting look at the brutalities of the Filipino-American War and its postcolonial legacy.

Dr. Oliver Harding, a tenured professor of English, is long settled into the routines of a divorced, aging academic. But his quiet, staid life is upended by his new colleague, Ruhaba Khan, a dynamic Pakistani Muslim law professor.

One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented immigrant, disappears. After being adopted by two white college professors, Deming struggles to reconcile his new life with his mother’s disappearance and the memories of the community he left behind.

A searing memoir of class, inequality, and grief—a daughter's search to understand the lives her adoptive parents led, the life she forged as an adult, and the lives she's lost.

Cartoonist and professor Lynda Barry teaches the art of making comics, challenging artists to abandon perfectionism and embrace expressive communication. Sprawling full-page spreads offer philosophical meditations and exploratory exercises to engage students young and old.

This collection of essays blends biographical stories with cultural criticism to explore the complexities of discrimination against Asian Americans and Hong's experiences being pigeonholed as an artist and writer.

Set in the Philippines and within the Filipino American communities of California, these short stories explore isolation, displacement, and the longing for human connection.

In this sharp novel about tech culture, two startup employees, tired of being office pariahs and dealing with passive-aggressive racism, decide to steal their company’s user database in an act of vengeance before quitting their jobs.

A Japanese American “no-no boy”—so-called because of his refusal to denounce his Japanese heritage and refusal to fight for the U.S. during World War II—struggles to cope with life post-internment and post-prison in this haunting and still-relevant 1957 novel.

An essay collection that recounts Sen's childhood in Kolkata (then Calcutta) and her family's move to Boston. She discusses code-switching, being both the “native translator” and “assimilated immigrant,” and navigating issues of race, caste, and privilege.

This poetic autobiographical novel intimately explores grief, race, and sexuality in the form of letters from a son to his mother, who is illiterate.

A poet’s audio obsession, from collecting his earliest vinyl to his quest for the ideal vacuum tubes. A captivating book that “ingeniously mixes personal memoir with cultural history and offers us an indispensable guide for the search of acoustic truth.

Mehta explores the lives of gay Indian American men caught between worlds in this insightful Lambda Award–winning short story collection.

Ro is stuck. She's just entered her thirties, she's estranged from her mother, and her boyfriend has just left her to join a mission to Mars. Ro's only companion is Dolores, a giant Pacific octopus who also happens to be Ro's last remaining link to her father, a marine biologist who disappeared while on an expedition when Ro was a teenager. When Dolores is sold to a wealthy investor intent on moving her to a private aquarium, Ro finds herself on the precipice of self-destruction.

Framed in the context of cyborgs and Turing tests, Choi's dazzling poetry collection explores the nebulous spaces of human identity.

A novelist finds a diary and artifacts in a Hello Kitty lunchbox that washes up on an isolated Canadian beach in 2012. It belongs to a depressed Japanese American teenager living in Tokyo, whom Ruth begins to suspect may have died in the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.

These tightly written contemporary stories set throughout Hawaii feature strong local protagonists—some Native Hawaiian and others of mixed ethnic backgrounds—as they go about their daily lives, far away from the kitsch or romanticized ideal.

Full title: We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future | An attorney chronicles a post-9/11 history of hatred and racial profiling against various immigrant and undocumented groups, as well as efforts to improve the situation.

Organized around the devastating financial crisis of 1997, these stories introduce us to an unforgettable cast of characters who employ various schemes and strategies to conceal, betray, lie, and seduce their way to achieving the 'good' life.

A young biracial Samoan American never fit in at school, church, work, or among his family. He wanders San Jose aimlessly, getting into fights and spending time in jail, until his family intervenes to straighten out his life. What will he do with this chance at redemption?

Surreal, hilarious, and shrewdly poignant—a novel about a Korean American woman living in Berlin whose obsession with a K-pop idol sends her to Seoul on a journey of literary self-destruction.

Through critical essays, research, and archival images, this book examines anti-Asian “yellow peril” racism, a centuries-old ideology with examples from past to present in media representations—including literature, pop culture, music, and art—and everyday life.

Still relevant 20 years after publication, law professor and current Queens College president Frank Wu examines and breaks down the complexities of discrimination, the model minority myth, the perpetual foreigner stereotype, and affirmative action.