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The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang
4 stars
The residents of Haven, Wisconsin, have dined on the Fine Chao Restaurant’s delicious Americanized Chinese food for thirty-five years, happy …
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The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan
4 stars
In this taut and explosive debut novel, one lapse in judgement lands a young mother in a government reform program …
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"A novel about a young Chinese woman whose graduate studies in chemistry go off track and lead her to discover …
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Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
4 stars
"Klara and the Sun, the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, tells …
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From the award winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine, a tour de …
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In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the draining graveyard shift at a boxed-lunch factory. Burdened with chores and heavy …
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The Magic Fish by Le Nguyen Trung
5 stars
Tiến loves his family and his friends…but Tiến has a secret he's been keeping from them, and it might change …
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5 stars
An epic and intimate tale of one couple across sixty years as world events pull them together and apart, illuminating …
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How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang
An electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush, two siblings are on the run in …
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Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
4 stars
Daiyu never wanted to be like the tragic heroine for whom she was named, revered for her beauty and cursed …
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Silver Repetition by Lily Wang
A debut coming-of-age novel that delicately illuminates the fullness of identity despite fractures in language, culture, and relationships
In …
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The Fetishist by Katherine Min
In this hilariously savage, poignant novel by acclaimed author Katherine Min, a grieving daughter’s revenge on the man who caused …
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Awake in the Floating City by Susanna Kwan
An utterly transporting debut novel about the unexpected relationship between an artist and the 130-year-old woman she cares for—two of …
