More AAPI Authors for Heritage Month

 Asian American and Pacific Island Heritage Month

Sour Heart

Stories

by Jenny Zhang, August 2017

Description

A story collection on the experience of adolescence through the eyes of Chinese American girls growing up in New York City

Number One Chinese Restaurant

A Novel

by Lillian Li,  June 2018

An exuberant and wise multigenerational debut novel about the complicated lives and loves of people working in everyone’s favorite Chinese restaurant in Rockville,Md. 

What We Were Promised

by Lucy Tan, July 2018

Set in modern Shanghai, a debut by a Chinese-American writer about a prodigal son whose unexpected return forces his newly wealthy family to confront painful secrets and unfulfilled promises.

The Hangman's Secret

A Victorian Mystery

by Laura Joh Rowland

Intrepid photographer Sarah Bain and her motley crew of friends are back to hunt criminals in the dark, seedy underbelly of Victorian London, but little do they know, the darkness may lurk closer than they first divined.

Trust Exercise

A Novel

by Susan Choi, April 2019

In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle and thrive in a rarified bubble, ambitiously pursuing music, movement, Shakespeare, and, particularly, their acting classes. When within this striving “Brotherhood of the Arts,” two freshmen, David and Sarah, fall headlong into love, their passion does not go unnoticed—or untoyed with—by anyone, especially not by their charismatic acting teacher, Mr. Kingsley.

Natalie Tan's Book of Luck and Fortune

by Roselle Lim, June 2019

Lush and visual, chock-full of delicious recipes, Roselle Lim’s magical debut novel is about food, heritage, and finding family in the most unexpected places.  

What are you reading this week?

Memes:  The Sunday Post, It's Monday: What Are You Reading, Sunday Salon, and Stacking the Shelves, Mailbox Monday