The Sorrows of Others
By: Ada Zhang
4.09
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Set in China and America, in the generations after the Cultural Revolution, The Sorrows of Others i…
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1. Wednesday's Child: Stories
By: Yiyun Li
3.75
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A new collection—about loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary life—by the awa… read more
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- literary fiction
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- short stories
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- contemporary
- asian literature
- china
2. Bliss Montage
By: Ling Ma
3.91
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
A new creation by the author of Severance, the stories in Bliss Montage crash through our carefully… read more
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- literary fiction
- short story collection
- short stories
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"To live is to exist within time. To remember is to negate time."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"It doesn't take much to come into your own; all it takes is someone's gaze."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"Maybe you don't know that you're wounded until you receive the salve. The salve that makes everything come back."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
"It was a time when the future could have been anything, been anywhere. It was so open that it could actually crush her."-Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
3. Exhibit
By: R.O. Kwon
3.24
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author R. O. Kwon, an exhilarating, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between… read more
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- literary fiction
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4. Roman Stories
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.80
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
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- contemporary
5. Memory Piece
By: Lisa Ko
3.22
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by th… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"The physicality of making things, the performance, temporarily displaced how stuck she felt, in this particular body, family, town, time."-Lisa Ko, Memory Piece
6. Holding Pattern
By: Jenny Xie
3.18
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION "5 UNDER 35" HONOREE Holding Pattern. Noun. 1. A state of suspende… read more
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- asian literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
7. Gods of Want: Stories
By: K-Ming Chang
3.68
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Startling stories that center the bodies, memories, myths, and relationships of Asian American wome… read more
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- fiction
- literary fiction
- short stories
- anthologies
"She claimed she could read palms, but when I gave her mine, she kissed my palms instead of reading them. She said my hands were designed to catch the rain like coins, even though it never rained. Her…"-K-Ming Chang, Gods of Want: Stories
8. Tomb Sweeping
By: Alexandra Chang
3.37
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A playful and deeply affective short story collection about the histories, technologies, and genera… read more
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- literary fiction
- anthologies
- short stories
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- contemporary
- asian literature
- china
9. The Liberators
By: E.J. Koh
3.46
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
At the height of the military dictatorship in South Korea, Insuk and Sungho are arranged to be marr… read more
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- asia
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- contemporary
- asian literature
10. Witness: Stories
By: Jamel Brinkley
3.81
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a National Book Award finalist, Witness is an elegant, insistent narrative of actions taken an… read more
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- literary fiction
- anthologies
- short stories
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- contemporary
"According to the terms of her personal lexicon, a woman was a lady only if she was fascinating and ungovernable, and my mother considered herself nothing if not a lady."-Jamel Brinkley, Witness: Stories
11. Green Frog: Stories
By: Gina Chung
4.14
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A short story collection that explores Korean American womanhood, bodies, animals, and transformati… read more
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- anthologies
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- contemporary
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12. The Sorrows of Others
By: Ada Zhang
4.09
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Set in China and America, in the generations after the Cultural Revolution, The Sorrows of Others i… read more
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13. Hao: Stories
By: Ye Chun
4.09
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary debut collection of short stories by a three-time Pushcart Prize winner following … read more
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- china
14. Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America
By: Julia Lee
4.34
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Julia Lee is angry. And she has questions. What does it mean to be Asian in America? What does it … read more
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- asian literature
15. The Night Parade
By: Jami Nakamura Lin
4.28
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In the groundbreaking tradition of In the Dream House and The Collected Schizophrenias, a gorgeousl… read more
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16. This Is Salvaged
By: Vauhini Vara
3.70
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
Stories of uncanny originality from a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction Pushing intimacy t… read more
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- literary fiction
- short story collection
- anthologies
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- contemporary
17. Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare
By: Megan Kamalei Kakimoto
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From major new storytelling talent Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, a blazing, bodily, raucous journey throu… read more
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18. Cinema Love
By: Jiaming Tang
3.86
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A staggering, tender epic about gay men in rural China and the women who marry them. For over th… read more
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- china
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19. The People Who Report More Stress
By: Alejandro Varela
3.87
Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition
The People Who Report More Stress is a collection of interconnected stories brimming with the anxie… read more
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20. Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City
By: Jane Wong
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An incandescent, exquisitely written memoir about family, food, girlhood, resistance, and growing u… read more
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- asia
21. Let's Go Let's Go Let's Go
By: Cleo Qian
3.94
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The electric, unsettling, and often surreal stories in Let's Go Let's Go Let's Go explore the alien… read more
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