Audiobook Memoirs for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage MonthLike this list

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• Minor Feelings

  Hong, Cathy Park

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  "Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America. Part memoir and part cultural criticism, this collection is vulnerable,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Crying in H Mart

  Zauner, Michelle

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  "In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Made in China

  Qu, Anna

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  "As a teen, Anna Qu is sent by her mother to work in her family’s garment factory in Queens. At home, she is treated as a maid and suffers punishment for doing her homework at night. Her mother wants to teach her a lesson: she is Chinese, not…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Speak, Okinawa

  Brina, Elizabeth Miki

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  "Elizabeth’s mother was working as a nightclub hostess on U.S.-occupied Okinawa when she met the American soldier who would become her husband. The language barrier and power imbalance that defined their early relationship followed them to the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tastes Like War

  Cho, Grace M.

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  "Grace M. Cho grew up as the daughter of a white American merchant marine and the Korean bar hostess he met abroad. They were one of few immigrants in a xenophobic small town during the Cold War, where identity was politicized by everyday…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• In Order to Live

  Park, Yeonmi,. 1993-

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  "In In Order to Live, Yeonmi Park shines a light not just into the darkest corners of life in North Korea, describing the deprivation and deception she endured and which millions of North Korean people continue to endure to this day, but also onto…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Eat a Peach

  Ulla, Gabe

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  "In 2004, Momofuku Noodle Bar opened in a tiny, stark space in Manhattan’s East Village. Its young chef-owner, David Chang, worked the line, serving ramen and pork buns to a mix of fellow restaurant cooks and confused diners whose idea of ramen was…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All You Can Ever Know

  Chung, Nicole

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  "Nicole Chung was born severely premature, placed for adoption by her Korean parents, and raised by a white family in a sheltered Oregon town. From childhood, she heard the story of her adoption as a comforting, prepackaged myth. She believed that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• What We Carry

  Lang, Maya Shanbhag

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  "Maya Shanbhag Lang grew up idolizing her brilliant mother, an accomplished physician who immigrated to the United States from India. Their relationship is irrevocably altered when Maya’s mother reveals family secrets that send Maya reeling.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ma and Me

  Reang, Putsata

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  "When Putsata Reang was eleven months old, her family fled war-torn Cambodia, spending twenty-three days on an overcrowded navy vessel before finding sanctuary at an American naval base in the Philippines. Holding what appeared to be a lifeless baby…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sick

  Khakpour, Porochista

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  "For as long as writer Porochista Khakpour can remember, she has been sick. For most of that time, she didn’t know why. All of her trips to the ER and her daily anguish, pain, and lethargy only ever resulted in one question: How could any one person…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Living Remedy

  Chung, Nicole

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  "Nicole Chung couldn’t hightail it out of her overwhelmingly white Oregon hometown fast enough. As a scholarship student at a private university on the East Coast, no longer the only Korean she knew, she found community and a path to the life she'd…Read moreRead more of this annotation