Charlie Chan is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction

9 best books like Charlie Chan is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction (Jessica Hagedorn): The Bonesetter's Daughter, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, Dear Committee Members, I Was Told There'd Be Cake, Jitterbug Perfume, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Skinny Legs and All, A Gift of Magic

The Bonesetter's Daughter
AuthorAmy Tan
ISBN0345457374
Ruth Young and her widowed mother, LuLing, have always had a tumultuous relationship. Now, before she succumbs to forgetfulness, LuLing gives Ruth some of her writings, which reveal a side of LuLing that Ruth has never known. . . .

In a remote mountain village where ghosts and tradition rule,...
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
AuthorSusan Faludi
ISBN0307345424
Skillfully Probing the Attack on Women’s Rights

“Opting-out,” “security moms,” “desperate housewives,” “the new baby fever”—the trend stories of 2006 leave no doubt that American women are still being barraged by the same backlash messages that Susan Faludi brilliantly...
AuthorJulie Schumacher
ISBN0385538138
Finally, a novel that puts the "pissed" back into "epistolary."

Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne University, a small and not very distinguished liberal arts college in the midwest. His department is facing draconian cuts and squalid quarters,...
I Was Told There'd Be Cake
AuthorSloane Crosley
From the author of the novel, The Clasp, hailed by Michael Chabon, Heidi Julavits, and J. Courtney Sullivan. Wry, hilarious, and profoundly genuine, this debut collection of literary essays from Sloane Crosley is a celebration of fallibility and haplessness in all their glory.

From despoiling...
Jitterbug Perfume
AuthorTom Robbins
ISBN1842430351
Jitterbug Perfume is an epic, which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn't conclude until nine o'clock tonight [Paris time]. It is a saga, as well. A saga must have a hero, and the hero of this one is a janitor with a missing bottle. The bottle is blue, very, very old, and embossed...
The Bonfire of the Vanities
AuthorTom Wolfe
ISBN0553381342
Sherman McCoy, the central figure of Tom Wolfe's first novel, is a young investment banker with a fourteen-room apartment in Manhattan. When he is involved in a freak accident in the Bronx, prosecutors, politicians, the press, the police, the clergy, and assorted hustlers high and low close in on him,...
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
AuthorTom Robbins
ISBN1842430246
Starring Sissy Hankshaw--flawlessly beautiful, almost. A small-town girl with big-time dreams and a quirk to match--hitchhiking her way into your heart, your hopes, and your sleeping bags...Featuring Bonanza Jellybean and the smooth-riding cowgirls of Rubber Rose Ranch. Chink, lascivious...
Skinny Legs and All
AuthorTom Robbins
ISBN1842430343
I can't think of any other book I've read very recently that left my mind as thoroughly blown as Skinny Legs and All. I'd only read one other Tom Robbins book -- Still Life With Woodpecker -- so I was prepared for his playfulness, humor, intricate (but goofy) language, and overall trippy feel that all come...
AuthorLois Duncan
ISBN0440228476
A Gift of Magic wasn't the type of book I'd been expecting, but I'm glad I decided to read it. Written in a mysterious style with an ordinary setting, this book is full of fantasy elements and childhood nostalgia, but it's not a babyish or age-limited book. It's a very timeless story really, one that could...
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