Rolling the R's

10 best books like Rolling the R's (R. Zamora Linmark): Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, M. Butterfly, The Woman Warrior, I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution, No-No Boy, The Tea Dragon Festival, Mooncakes, Bee and Puppycat, Vol. 1, Afterland, Bee and Puppycat Vol. 3

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
AuthorAudre Lorde
ISBN0895941228
in college, in the late 80s and early 90s, i discovered that i had two aunts. this is one (and this is another). aunt Audre intimidated me at first. she was a stern, moody, melancholy woman who had lived a life of so many ups and downs. but as i got to know her, her innate gentleness became clear. this was a woman...
M. Butterfly
AuthorDavid Henry Hwang
ISBN0822207125
Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and soon to be back on Broadway in a revival directed by the Lion King's Julie Taymor, starring Clive Owen

"A brilliant play of ideas... a visionary work that bridges the history and culture of two worlds."--Frank...
The Woman Warrior
AuthorMaxine Hong Kingston
ISBN0679721886
This was an intense book full of both women's power and violence against women set against the backdrop of the Cultural Revolution and the emigration of many Chinese people fleeing Mao to California. It is a mixture of autobiography and folklore and is beautifully written. Maxine Hong Kingston received...
I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution
AuthorEmily Nussbaum
ISBN0525508961
From The New Yorker’s fiercely original, Pulitzer Prize–winning culture critic, a provocative collection of new and previously published essays arguing that we are what we watch.

From her creation of the first “Approval Matrix” in New York magazine in 2004 to her Pulitzer Prize–winning...
No-No Boy
AuthorJohn Okada
ISBN0295955252
John Okada was born in Seattle, Washington in 1923. He attended the University of Washington and Columbia University. He served in the US Army in World War II, wrote one novel and died of a heart attack at the age of 47. John Okada died in obscurity believing that Asian America had rejected his work.

In...
The Tea Dragon Festival
AuthorKatie O'Neill
ISBN1620106558
Rinn has grown up with the Tea Dragons that inhabit their village, but stumbling across a real dragon turns out to be a different matter entirely! Aedhan is a young dragon who was appointed to protect the village but fell asleep in the forest eighty years ago. With the aid of Rinn’s adventuring uncle...
Mooncakes
AuthorSuzanne Walker
A story of love and demons, family and witchcraft.

Nova Huang knows more about magic than your average teen witch. She works at her grandmothers' bookshop, where she helps them loan out spell books and investigate any supernatural occurrences in their New England town.

One fateful...
AuthorNatasha Allegri
ISBN1608864871
Natasha Allegri's smash hit YouTube animated series comes to comic books!

A quirky new take on the magical girl genre with Bee, the forever unemployed main character who can't seem to figure out life, and the mysterious PuppyCat, a stray...whatever it is...that she stumbled across who has...
AuthorMai Der Vang
ISBN1555977707
The 2016 winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, selected by Carolyn Forché

When I make the crossing, you must not be taken no matter what
the current gives. When we reach the camp,

there will be thousands like us.
If I make it onto the plane, you must...
Bee and Puppycat Vol. 3
AuthorPatrick Seery
ISBN1608869113
AND THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED!

Join Bee and Puppycat as they continue work for some hard-earned cash in the most-weird situations. From cleaning a windmill to fixing a giant egg, a magic girl does what a magic girl can do to make ends meet!

Created by Natasha Allegri, this adorable series...
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