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The Emperor of Gladness
by Ocean Vuong

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Ocean Vuong's second novel, The Emperor of Gladness, opens with nineteen-year-old Hai about to jump off a bridge in East Gladness, Connecticut when he hears a voice ...

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1. Love in the Big City
  by Sang Young Park
2. Afterparties
  by Anthony Veasna So
3. Monkey Boy
  by Francisco Goldman
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This Is Your Mother
by Erika J. Simpson

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'Imagine this is your mother. Sallie Carol. Daughter of sharecroppers. Middle of ten.' From its first lines onward, Erika J. Simpson's debut memoir invites ...

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1. Another Word for Love
  by Carvell Wallace
2. Alligator Tears
  by Edgar Gomez
3. Somebody's Daughter
  by Ashley C. Ford
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Daughters of Shandong
by Eve J. Chung

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Daughters of Shandong is the debut novel of Eve J. Chung, a human rights lawyer living in New York. Overall, First Impressions readers loved the book, awarding it an ...

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1. Four Treasures of the Sky
  by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
2. The Mountains Sing
  by Nguyen Phan Que Mai
3. Pachinko
  by Min Jin Lee
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Remember Us
by Jacqueline Woodson

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BookBrowse YA Book Award 2023 Remember Us is set largely across a single hazy summer of the 1970s in Bushwick, New York. With the neighborhood nicknamed 'The Matchbox&#...

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1. Our Beautiful Darkness
  by ‍ Ondjaki, Lyn Miller-Lachmann
2. We Are a Haunting
  by Tyriek White
3. Who Put This Song On?
  by Morgan Parker