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Bestiary: A Novel
By K-Ming ChangBestiary 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. -
Bright Lines: A Novel
By Tanaïs (née Tanwi Nandini Islam)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. -
Go Home!
By Rowan Hisayo Buchanan (ed.)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. -
Homeland Elegies: A Novel
By Ayad AkhtarA 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. -
The Incendiaries: A Novel
By R.O. KwonGrieving 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. -
Insurrecto: A Novel
By Gina ApostolApostol 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. -
The Leavers: A Novel
By Lisa KoOne 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. -
Monstress: Stories
By Lysley TenorioSet in the Philippines and within the Filipino American communities of California, these short stories explore isolation, displacement, and the longing for human connection. -
New Waves: A Novel
By Kevin NguyenIn 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. -
No-No Boy: A Novel
By John OkadaA 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. -
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
By Ocean VuongThis poetic autobiographical novel intimately explores grief, race, and sexuality in the form of letters from a son to his mother, who is illiterate. -
Quarantine: Stories
By Rahul MehtaMehta explores the lives of gay Indian American men caught between worlds in this insightful Lambda Award–winning short story collection. -
A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel
By Ruth OzekiA 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. -
This Is Paradise: Stories
By Kristiana KahakauwilaThese 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. -
What We Are: A Novel
By Peter Nathaniel MalaeA 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?