A young, British Pakistani man, Nur, falls in love with Yasmina, a beautiful aspiring, black journalist and starts down a path of self-destruction as he tries to please both his strict family and his girlfriend.
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The Year in Asian American & Pacific Islander Fiction
Enjoy a variety of fiction from the past year penned by Asian American and Pacific Islander authors, selected by our librarians. (Created April 2022)
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Good Intentions
a Novel
- Winner of the 1997 Philippine National Book Award, Gina Apostol’s debut novel, available for the first time in the US, tells of a young woman caught between a lifelong desire to escape into books and a real-world revolution.
- Follows a brother and sister whose paths diverge--one forced to leave, one left behind--in the wake of a nationalist coup in the South Pacific.
- These intimate short stories of South Indian immigrants and the families they left behind center women's lives and ask how women both claim and surrender power.
- After a very bad day, harried working mother Frida Liu is subject to a dystopian state-run reform program where "bad mothers" are retrained using robot doll children with artificial intelligence.
- When Big Leo Chao drops dead in his own restaurant, his three sons struggle with the legacy of their father's outsized appetites, in a contemporary Chinese-American version of The Brothers Karamazov.
- This incisive and glittering blend of fashion, crime and friendship is the story of two Asian American women who band together to grow a counterfeit handbag scheme into a global enterprise.
- How do we take stock of a life-by what means, and by what measure? This is the question that preoccupies Alice, aTaiwanese immigrant in her late thirties, in this lucid and moving novel on the interconnection between work and life.
- When her husband suddenly disappears, a young woman must uncover where he went-and who she might be without him-in this striking debut of immigration, identity, and marriage. A searing meditation on intimacy, estrangement, and the fractured nature…
- Centering around Korean American families, this debut from a master of short fiction presents a searing look at the failure of intimacy to show us who the people we love truly are.
- A struggling PhD student makes a shocking discovery about a famous Chinese American poet that sets into motion a series of escalating events, both humorous and fraught.
- A quirky bookworm and internet celebrity falls for the CEO of a huge tech company hailed as the next Mark Zuckerberg, and the pair try to navigate their personal and professional differences together.
- The fourth entry in Dev's heartwarmingly irresistible Jane Austen inspired rom com series, Emma gets a fresh Indian-American twist.
- Set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution, this lyrical novel follows a father’s determination to reunite his family before his daughter Junie’s 12th birthday, even if it means bringing painful family secrets to light.
- Settling in America years after his turbulent childhood in China, Renshu, now Henry Dao, refuses to talk to his daughter about her heritage, determined to keep her safe in this new land despite being weighed down by his history.
- When the only man thirty-six-year-old Gabriella Stevens has ever loved walks out on her, she feels like her world is ending... but as she begins to forge her own way forward for the first time in her life, she discovers an inner resilience and…
- Kumiko's sweet life is shattered when Death's shadow swoops in to collect her. With her quick mind and sense of humor, Kumiko, with the help of friends new and old, is prepared for the fight of her life. But how long can an old woman thwart fate?
- Set in the months leading up to the 2018 nuclear missile false alarm, the members of a Korean family living in Hawai'i find themselves under suspicion, while their daughter gets constantly high as she witnesses her family's undoing.
- In this sequel to Iced in Paradise, Leilani Santiago finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation that endangers her family and friends after saving a mysterious woman wearing a lei from drowning in Waimea Bay.
- Two best friends since elementary school, both Taiwanese Americans, navigate their grown-up lives and discover their friendship strained by distance and unintended betrayals after Fiona Lin moves to New York and Jane Shen stays in California.
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