Land of Big Numbers: Stories
By: Te-Ping Chen
3.94
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
A debut collection from an extraordinary new talent that vividly gives voice to the men and women o…
Want to Read $ 9.99"They were fond of each other, and that was more than you could say about most marriages."-Te-Ping Chen, Land of Big Numbers: Stories
"They were fond of each other, and that was more than you could say about most marriages."-Te-Ping Chen, Land of Big Numbers: Stories
"He did not look like a man who could stomach life's indignities, whether it was a closed door or an uncomfortable, vertigo-inducing passage through a birth canal."-Te-Ping Chen, Land of Big Numbers: Stories
"He did not look like a man who could stomach life's indignities, whether it was a closed door or an uncomfortable, vertigo-inducing passage through a birth canal."-Te-Ping Chen, Land of Big Numbers: Stories
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1. Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths by Karen Armstrong (1997-04-29)
By: Karen Armstrong
3.97
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
Venerated for millennia by three faiths, torn by irreconcilable conflict, conquered, rebuilt, and m… read more
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"When they have contemplated the world, human beings have always experienced a transcendence and mystery at the heart of existence."-Karen Armstrong, Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths by Karen Armstrong (1997-04-29)
"Then, as now, there would always be people who preferred the option of devoting their religious energies to sacred space over the more difficult duty of compassion."-Karen Armstrong, Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths by Karen Armstrong (1997-04-29)
"Mythology was never designed to describe historically verifiable events that actually happened. It was an attempt to express their inner significance or to draw attention to realities that were too e…"-Karen Armstrong, Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths by Karen Armstrong (1997-04-29)
2. China in Ten Words
By: Yu Hua , Allan H. Barr
3.93
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
From one of China's most acclaimed writers, his first work of nonfiction to appear in English: a un… read more
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3. Beautiful Country
By: Qian Julie Wang
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to “beautiful country.” Yet when sev… read more
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- asia
- china
- adult
- audiobook
"Words rolled out of my mouth one after another and I do not dare to interrupt them with a breath. They are new words, foreign words but familiar all the same because they have been sitting at my thro…"-Qian Julie Wang, Beautiful Country
4. 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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- audiobook
- 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
5. Stay True
By: Hua Hsu
4.03
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for se… read more
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- asian literature
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"My parents are great, I said. Unbelievably non-stereotypical."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"The first generation thinks about survival; the ones that follow tell the stories."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"You were describing people we had not yet met, maybe people we ourselves would become."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"It was a sign of personal growth, I thought to myself, that I could be friends with someone who liked Pearl Jam this much."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
6. Afterparties
By: Anthony Veasna So
3.95
Format: 272 pages, ebook
Seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tenderhearted, balancing acerbic humor with sha… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- adult
- audiobook
"Fuck everyone else, I want to say, for burdening the two of us with all their baggage. Let's go back to minding our own business, anything but this. Who cares about our family? What have they ever do…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"Seeing a sloppy wet penis enter a sloppy wet vagina, from above, going in and out with the practiced tempo of professionals, strikes me as yet another drama for the ages I am meant only to witness, r…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"The dream unfolds: Somaly and I are sitting at a dinner table. She wears a white sampot covered in jewels perfectly matching her necklace. She’s almost akin to an apsara in a painting—aggressively el…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"We drove through a few more neighborhoods after that, searching for the lost truck, listening to a CD of old Khmer songs, the same CD that had been stuck in the stereo since the Honda had belonged to…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
7. Aftershocks
By: Nadia Owusu
3.91
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
This poetic, genre-bending work—blending memoir with cultural history—from Whiting Award winner Nad… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"Without other humans there is no such thing as shame."-Nadia Owusu, Aftershocks
"The problem with organized religion is the assertion that all questions have already been answered."-Nadia Owusu, Aftershocks
"But the box, I suppose, formalized their absence, gave it a name. Knowing and accepting the inevitable are two different things."-Nadia Owusu, Aftershocks
"Code-switching is dancing between vocal styles and rhythms. This dance is part celebration--of the richness, intricacies, and blurry borders of our cultures."-Nadia Owusu, Aftershocks
8. Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
By: Tahir Hamut Izgil
4.31
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a f… read more
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- china
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"The Uyghur region was now a gigantic prison, blanketed with security forces and a biometric surveillance system unique in human history."-Tahir Hamut Izgil, Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
9. 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
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- fiction
- contemporary
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- china
- adult
- audiobook
10. Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
By: Elizabeth Kolbert
4.10
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity’s transformative impa… read more
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"I was struck, and not for the first time, by how much easier it is to ruin an ecosystem than to run one."-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
"If control is the problem, then, by the logic of the Anthropocene, still more control must be the solution."-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
"He’s a burly man with sparse white hair and a white beard who looks like Santa might look if Santa, in the off-season, carried a tackle box."-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
"Here I was, trying to finish a book about the world spinning out of control, only to find the world spinning so far out of control that I couldn't finish the book."-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
11. 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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- contemporary
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12. Land of Big Numbers: Stories
By: Te-Ping Chen
3.94
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
A debut collection from an extraordinary new talent that vividly gives voice to the men and women o… read more
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- literary fiction
- asia
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- china
- adult
- audiobook
"They were fond of each other, and that was more than you could say about most marriages."-Te-Ping Chen, Land of Big Numbers: Stories
"He did not look like a man who could stomach life's indignities, whether it was a closed door or an uncomfortable, vertigo-inducing passage through a birth canal."-Te-Ping Chen, Land of Big Numbers: Stories
"She laughed a lot, and easily. It wasn't until we actually became friends that I realized she was often very sad. America is like that, I must say, free and easy until you know better."-Te-Ping Chen, Land of Big Numbers: Stories
"A great wasteland of sorrow was opening up in him, unfolding dozens of tiny shacks, terrible squatters setting up residence, banging their miniature liquor bottles against his chest, a hundred feet t…"-Te-Ping Chen, Land of Big Numbers: Stories
13. Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
By: Kim Fu
3.86
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
In the twelve unforgettable tales of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, the strange is made… read more
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- short stories
- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
"Just imagine it: no longer feeling guilty for everything you have and don't deserve, for an unjust world bent in your favor, paying the piper at last. Wasn't it worth it, after all? My head on a pike…"-Kim Fu, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
"My wife and I are that other kind of rich: the misers among you, in our quaint three-bedroom house in the suburbs, unrenovated since the 1990s, one modest hatchback car between us, our big-box store …"-Kim Fu, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
14. The Loneliest Americans
By: Jay Caspian Kang
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A riveting blend of family history and original reportage by a conversation-starting writer for The… read more
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- asian literature
- asia
- audiobook
"These cultural generalizations, perhaps correctly, reduce the history of immigration to a binary. When immigrants come into this country, whether they join the labor force, like the Irish, Mexicans, …"-Jay Caspian Kang, The Loneliest Americans
15. Things We Lost to the Water
By: Eric Nguyen
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When Huong arrives in New Orleans with her two young sons, she is jobless, homeless, and worried ab… read more
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- literary fiction
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- contemporary
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16. Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
By: Ava Chin
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping narrative history of the Chinese Exclusion Act through an intimate portrayal of one fami… read more
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- china
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"I am trying to keep it all together -- not lashing out in anger, not bursting into tears, because what is anger, but pain masquerading as bravado?"-Ava Chin, Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
17. Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
By: Jing Tsu
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
What does it take to reinvent a language? After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world… read more
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- asia
- china
- audiobook
18. Somewhere in the Middle: A journey to the Philippines in search of roots, belonging, and identity
By: Deborah Francisco Douglas
3.87
Format: 254 pages, Paperback
Half Filipino but raised in an American household, Deborah Francisco Douglas had always longed to … read more
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19. Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise
By: Susan L. Shirk
4.11
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
A sobering, penetrating, and illuminating examination of Chinese-US relations, what has contributed… read more
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20. I Am My Country: And Other Stories
By: Kenan Orhan
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A fiercely imaginative debut story collection by “a startling talent who can seemingly do anything”… read more
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- asia
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- adult
21. Not Quite Not White: Losing and Finding Race in America
By: Sharmila Sen
4.05
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A memoir manifesto about race, immigration and assimilation; how an Indian American woman navigated… read more
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- asian literature
"Privilege is a peculiar possession. To those who possess it, privilege is weightless, tasteless, odorless, soundless, and colorless. Those who have the least access to it are painfully aware of its m…"-Sharmila Sen, Not Quite Not White: Losing and Finding Race in America
