Emma Brown
Three thoughtful books explore identity, belonging, and creativity
Disorientation, by Elaine Hsieh Chou
Disorientation is a perfectly chosen name for this equal-parts fascinating and frustrating debut novel from Elaine Hsieh Chou. It’s inspired...
One family’s struggle for survival during the Khmer Rouge genocide
I opened this book intending to peek at the first pages, and ended up finishing it in one sitting. This graphic memoir about one...
A graphic novel that explores what concepts of home and belonging mean for a...
Palimpsest is a challenging graphic novel and memoir about the struggle of a Korean-Swedish trans-racial adoptee to uncover her roots and come to terms...
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Days of Distraction, Alexandra Chang
The first thing to strike me about Days of Distraction was its structure: delivered in short, easily-digestible paragraphs, it mirrors...
“Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji” is the next best thing to viewing the...
This art book simply delivers Hokusai’s famed series of woodblock print landscapes accompanied by brief but enlightening commentary. Balcou’s introduction gives context about early-19th-century...
Within the novel “The Factory”, the lives described feel meaningless, and this delivers...
In The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada, life dissolves into a strange fog for three characters who have accepted jobs for an enigmatic institution, known only...
“Things That Make And Break” is an energetic collection of short stories ...
May-Lan Tan’s book of short stories, Things That Make and Break, is an energetic collection, one that I find a bit uneven -- but...
Themes of social justice, inclusion, and equity are plentiful in these young adult novels
My Fate According to the Butterfly
By Gail D. Villanueva
Villanueva’s novel gives young readers a colorful glimpse of life in Manila, capital of the Philippines,...
Children’s summer reading by API authors
Thank You Very Mochi
By Paul Matsushima, Sophie Wang, Craig Ishii, and Paul Matsushima, illustrated by Jing Zheng
Produced by Kizuna, a Los Angeles Japanese American...
Valuable life lessons and stories of perseverance in children’s books by API authors
Where Will I Live?
This is a sobering book to read at any age, and not likely to be many parents’ first choice for an...
