Hapa Girl: A Memoir
10 best books like Hapa Girl: A Memoir (May-lee Chai): Working IX to V: Orgy Planners, Funeral Clowns, and Other Prized Professions of the Ancient World, American Knees, YELL-Oh Girls!: Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian American, The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker, The Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance, When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, Candy, Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China, Raising Ourselves: A Gwitch'in Coming of Age Story from the Yukon River, Caesars' Wives: The Women Who Shaped the History of Rome
| Author | Vicki León |
| ISBN | 0802715567 |
Vicki Le?n, the popular author of the Uppity Women series (more than 335,000 in print), has turned her impressive writing and research skills to the entertaining and unusual array of the peculiar jobs, prized careers and passionate pursuits of ancient Greece and Rome.
From Architect to Vicarius...
Raymond Ding is 40, divorced, and, as a boyfriend, sort of lecture-y and condescending. He works as the Assistant Director of Minority Affairs at Jack London College in Oakland and, in his relationship with Aurora Crane, a younger Eurasian woman, he can't seem to forget that he's the guy she's sleeping...
YELL-Oh Girls!: Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian American
| Author | Vickie Nam |
| ISBN | 0060959444 |
In this groundbreaking collection of personal writings, young Asian American girls come together for the first time and engage in a dynamic converstions about the unique challenges they face in their lives. Promoted by a variety of pressing questions from editor Vickie Nam and culled from hundreds...
The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker
| Author | Eric Liu |
| ISBN | 0375704868 |
Beyond black and white, native and alien, lies a vast and fertile field of human experience. It is here that Eric Liu, former speechwriter for President Clinton and noted political commentator, invites us to explore.
In these compellingly candid essays, Liu reflects on his life as a second-generation...
| Author | Larry Gonick |
| ISBN | 0393324036 |
An irreverent survey in comics spanning world history from the birth of Islam to the Byzantine Empire to the Italian Renaissance.
Larry Gonick's celebrated series The Cartoon History of the Universe is a unique fusion of world history and the comics medium, a work of serious scholarship and...
When the Rainbow Goddess Wept
| Author | Cecilia Manguerra Brainard |
| ISBN | 0472086375 |
Set against the backdrop of the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in 1941, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's brilliant novel weaves myth and legend together with the suffering and tragedies of the Filipino people. When nine-year-old Yvonne flees with her family into the jungle to join the resistance...
| Author | Mian Mian |
| ISBN | 0316563560 |
I quit trusting anything that anyone told me.
My life was skidding into darkness at high speed, and I couldn't stop it.
I didn't think that there was a man anywhere in the world who could love me.
I was 22 years old and dead on the vine.
I want to see a thousand lonely strangers dancing happily...
| Author | James M. Fallows |
| ISBN | 0307456242 |
“Americans need not be hostile toward China's rise, but they should be wary about its eventual effects. The United States is the only nation with the scale and power to try to set the terms of its interaction with China rather than just succumb. So starting now, Americans need to consider the economic,...
Raising Ourselves: A Gwitch'in Coming of Age Story from the Yukon River
| Author | Velma Wallis |
| ISBN | 0972494472 |
Born in 1960, the sixth of thirteen children, Velma Wallis comes of age in a two-room log cabin in remote Fort Yukon, Alaska. Life is defined by the business of living off the land. Chopping wood. Hauling water from the river. Hunting moose. Catching salmon. Traping fur. Taking care of the dogs. For a thousand...
| Author | Annelise Freisenbruch |
| ISBN | 1416583033 |
In scandals and power struggles obscured by time and legend, the wives, mistresses, mothers, sisters, and daughters of the Caesars have been popularly characterized as heartless murderers, shameless adulteresses, and conniving politicians in the high dramas of the Roman court. Yet little has...
| Author | Evan D.G. Fraser |
| ISBN | 1439101892 |
We are what we eat: this aphorism contains a profound truth about civilization, one that has played out on the world historical stage over many millennia of human endeavor.
Using the colorful diaries of a sixteenth-century merchant as a narrative guide, Empires of Food vividly chronicles...
The Republic of East L.A.
From the award-winning author of Always Running comes a brilliant collection of short stories about life in East Los Angeles. Whether hilariously capturing the voice of a philosophizing limo driver whose dream is to make the most of his rap-metal garage band in "My Ride, My Revolution," or the monologue-styled...
| Author | G.B. Tran |
| ISBN | 0345508726 |
A superb new graphic memoir in which an inspired artist/storyteller reveals the road that brought his family to where they are today: Vietnamerica
GB Tran is a young Vietnamese American artist who grew up distant from (and largely indifferent to) his family’s history. Born and raised...
| Author | David B. |
| ISBN | 2844140858 |
David B.'s tribulations with his brother's epilepsy, the way in which the illness determined the author's artistic vocation, with, as a backdrop, a sharply delienated parade of the chimera of the 70s, from the promise of communal living to the infatuation with macrobiotics, all combine to make of...
| Author | Marilyn Chin |
| ISBN | 0393331458 |
An uproarious debut that lays bare the complicated generational relationships of Chinese American women.
Raucous twin sisters Moonie and Mei Ling Wong are known as the “double happiness” Chinese food delivery girls. Each day they load up a “crappy donkey-van” and deliver Americanized...
Celebrated artist and writer Belle Yang makes a stunning debut as a graphic memoirist with this story of crisis and survival.
When Belle Yang was forced to take refuge in her parents’ home after an abusive boyfriend began stalking her, her father entertained her with stories of old China....
| Author | Bill Shapiro |
| ISBN | 0307459640 |
Welcome to the rejection-letter hall of fame, where the hopes and dreams of celebrities (Jimi Hendrix, Andy Warhol, among others) are crushed alongside the aspirations of the rest of us. You’ll find handwritten notes from former lovers, nasty e-mails from would-be bosses, heated texts, crayon...
Charlie Chan Is Dead 2: At Home in the World (An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction-- Revised and Updated)
| Author | Jessica Hagedorn |
| ISBN | 0142003905 |
More than a decade after its initial publication, the groundbreaking anthology Charlie Chan Is Dead remains the best available source for contemporary Asian American fiction. Edited by acclaimed novelist and National Book Award nominee Jessica Hagedorn, Charlie Chan Is Dead 2: At Home in the World...
| Author | Martin F. Manalansan IV |
| ISBN | 0822332175 |
A vivid ethnography of the global and transnational dimensions of gay identity as lived by Filipino immigrants in New York City, Global Divas challenges beliefs about the progressive development of a gay world and the eventual assimilation of all queer folks into gay modernity. Insisting that gay...
Tropical Fish: Tales from Entebbe
| Author | Doreen Baingana |
| ISBN | 0767925106 |
In her fiction debut, Doreen Baingana follows a Ugandan girl as she navigates the uncertain terrain of adolescence. Set mostly in pastoral Entebbe with stops in the cities Kampala and Los Angeles, Tropical Fish depicts the reality of life for Christine Mugisha and her family after Idi Amin's dictatorship.
Three...
| Author | Charles M. Schulz |
| ISBN | 0340127864 |
Selected from Snoopy Come Home (where are all these original collections?)
Snoopy has a lot of trouble with his neighbors in this book, including some birds holding meetings. Snoopy considers warning others about their diabolical plans--then concludes that eventually we'll find out anyway.
This...
Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White
Writing in the tradition of W. E. B. Du Bois, Cornel West, and others who confronted the "color line" of the twentieth century, journalist, scholar, and activist Frank H. Wu offers a unique perspective on how changing ideas of racial identity will affect race relations in the twenty-first century....
Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb
| Author | Ronald Takaki |
| ISBN | 0316831247 |
The bombing of Hiroshima was one of the pivotal events of the twentieth century, yet this controversial question remains unresolved. At the time, General Dwight Eisenhower, General Douglas MacArthur, and chief of staff Admiral William Leahy all agreed that an atomic attack on Japanese cities was...
| Author | William S. Burroughs |
| ISBN | 0912652462 |
(the movie got its title from this earlier book)
"In this futuristic screenplay vision of a strife-and-disease-plagued America in 1999, Burroughs finds the cure for a decaying civilization in the medicine practiced by underground physicians and surgeons. These heroic healers, in turn,...
