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• We Do Not Part

  a Novel

  Han, Kang, 1970-

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  In 2024, Han Kang became the first Korean writer and the first female Asian writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature; she was cited for her "intense poetic prose" which "confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• To Save and to Destroy

  Writing as An Other

  Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971-

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  This book by Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen is a deeply personal reflection on outsiders in literature and in U.S. society. Across six essays, Nguyen offers insightful readings of authors who shaped his craft, culminating in a poignant and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Emperor of Gladness

  Vuong, Ocean

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  Ocean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.

• The House of Doors

  a Novel

  Tan, Twan Eng, 1972-

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  A mesmerizingly beautiful novel based on real events, this historical fiction novel traces the fault lines of race, gender, sexuality, and power under empire, and dives deep into the complicated nature of love and friendship in its shadow.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Year of the Tiger

  An Activist's Life

  Wong, Alice, 1974-2025

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  Drawing on a collection of essays, conversations, graphics, photos, commissioned art by disabled and Asian American artists, and more, Alice Wong shares an impressionistic scrapbook of her life as an Asian American disabled activist, community…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Afterparties

  Stories

  So, Anthony Veasna, 1992-2020,

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  A debut story collection about Cambodian American life--immersive and comic, yet unsparing--that offers profound insight into the intimacy of queer and immigrant communities.

• Obit

  Poems

  Chang, Victoria, 1970-

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  After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grief during a feverish two weeks by writing scores of poetic obituaries for all she lost in the world. These poems reinvent the form of newspaper…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Shattered

  a Memoir

  Kureishi, Hanif,

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  A writer recounts his yearlong recovery in Rome following a fall that left him unable to walk, dictating reflections on his medical journey, parenthood, immigration, and writing, ultimately transforming his pain into a narrative that celebrates…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Invention of the Darling

  Poems

  Lee, Li-Young, 1957-

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  Acclaimed poet Li-Young Lee offers a revelatory volume of ecstatic poems that search out divine voices in the silences of life, love, and death.

• Mother Mary Comes to Me

  Roy, Arundhati

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  A raw and deeply moving memoir from the legendary author of The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness that traces the complex relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, a fierce and formidable force who shaped Arundhati Roy's life…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Kuleana

  a Story of Family, Land, and Legacy in Old Hawai'i

  Goo, Sara Kehaulani,

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  Set in one of the world's most beautiful landscapes, Kuleana is the story of an award-winning journalist's effort to hold on to her family's ancestral Hawaiian lands--and find herself along the way.