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by Franny Choi
Published Nov 2023
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by Eugenia Kim
Published Nov 2019
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by Jade Chang
Published Jun 2017
Read ReviewsA hilarious debut novel about a wealthy but fractured Chinese immigrant family that had it all, only to lose every last cent - and about the road trip they take across America that binds them back together.
by Adam Johnson
Published Oct 2016
Read ReviewsWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for his acclaimed and bestselling novel The Orphan Master's Son, Adam Johnson is one of America's most provocative and powerful authors. In Fortune Smiles - his first book since Orphan Master - he continues to give voice to characters rarely heard from, while offering something we all seek from fiction: a new way of ...
by Nayomi Munaweera
Published Jan 2016
Read ReviewsA stunning literary debut of two young women on opposing sides of the devastating Sri Lankan Civil Warwinner of the Commonwealth Book Prize for Asia, longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize
by Don Lee
Published Jul 2013
Read ReviewsA sparkling bildungsroman about friendship and betrayal, art and race.
by Catherine Chung
Published Mar 2013
Read ReviewsWeaving Korean folklore within a modern narrative of immigration and identity, Forgotten Country is a fierce exploration of the inevitability of loss, the conflict between obligation and freedom, and a family struggling to find its way out of silence and back to one another.
by Lysley Tenorio
Published Jan 2012
Read ReviewsA luminous collection of heartbreaking, vivid, startling, and gloriously unique stories set amongst the Filipino-American communities of California and the Philippines.
by Barbara Demick
Published Sep 2010
Read ReviewsA remarkable view into North Korea, as seen through the lives of six ordinary citizens
by Yiyun Li
Published Sep 2010
Read ReviewsIn these spellbinding stories, Yiyun Li gives us exquisite fiction filled with suspense, depth, and beauty, in which history, politics, and folklore magnificently illuminate the human condition.
by Daniyal Mueenuddin
Published Feb 2010
Read ReviewsA major literary debut that explores class, culture, power, and desire among the ruling and servant classes of Pakistan.
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