Ghost Forest
By: Pik-Shuen Fung
4.15
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
How do you grieve, if your family doesn't talk about feelings? This is the question the unnamed …
Want to Read $ 10.99"I learned that it is important to be true to yourself. Many people do whatever society tells them to do. They’ve lost themselves. I grew up with Confucian values, and they are limiting. I focused only on work and making a living. But I’m old now. Remember not to lose who you are."-Pik-Shuen Fung, Ghost Forest
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1. 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
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"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
2. Disorientation
By: Elaine Hsieh Chou
3.84
Format: 403 pages, Hardcover
A Taiwanese American woman’s coming-of-consciousness ignites eye-opening revelations and chaos on a… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- adult
- audiobook
"Never apologize, Ingrid. Especially not when it concerns a man."-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation
"She'd be split apart, never certain if the submissive and docile figure in the mirror was a reflection of who she really was, or the ghostly effect of someone telling her her entire life: this is who…"-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation
"For once in her life, she wanted to be selfishly and deliciously lazy. To embody the most abhorred word of her generation: unproductive. She, yes she, wanted to be the person who walks away as a car …"-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation
"Though it was a little shabby and could do with more frequent dusting, sudents flocked to the café for the worn-in armchairs and couches, free wi-fi and cheap coffee. Ingrid particularly liked the to…"-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation
3. Heart Berries
By: Terese Marie Mailhot
3.84
Format: 143 pages, Hardcover
Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian … read more
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- audiobook
"Pain expanded my heart."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
"You are such a home to me."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
"Romanticism requires bravery and risk."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
"Sometimes suicidality doesn’t seem dark; it seems fair."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
4. 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
- audiobook
"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
5. 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
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- china
- adult
- audiobook
6. Diary of a Void
By: Emi Yagi
3.51
Format: 213 pages, Hardcover
A prizewinning, thrillingly subversive debut novel about a woman in Japan who avoids harassment at … read more
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- literary fiction
- asia
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- audiobook
"Having a baby isn't easy. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. It's been two thousand years, and it's the same old story, right?"-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void
"I'm always so alone. I guess I should be used to it by now. That's the way it is from the moment we come into this world, but I'm still not used to it - how alone we all are."-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void
"Maybe that's making a family is all about: creating an environment in which people make space for one another - maybe without even trying, just naturally, to make sure that nobody's forgotten."-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void
"Until they arrived, while everyone else was transitioning to winter, putting on coats and sweaters, I was going to stick with my summer dress and my usual work blazer. Dressed in the dazzling flowers…"-Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void
7. The Ones Who Don't Say They Love You: Stories
By: Maurice Carlos Ruffin
4.01
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A collection of raucous stories that offer a panoramic view of New Orleans from the author of the "… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
8. Ripe
By: Sarah Rose Etter
3.63
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley startup, Cassie finds herself trapped in a … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"The open office floor plan is a form of strangulation."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"Maybe there must always be two of us—our real selves and the ones we create to survive in the world as it is."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"When you're young, every part of life seems big and monumental. Once older you can see it for what it is: smaller pieces of a larger game you have no choice but to play."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
"If the brain is elastic and memory is faulty, maybe all of these stories are wrong. Maybe it happened a different way altogether. Maybe I was happy and I just forget that now."-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe
9. Natural Beauty
By: Ling Ling Huang
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obs… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"it is still more permitted for women to be mediocre than for them to be fat"-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty
"It’s unfortunate that I can undermine months of parental reassurance in just a few seconds, but it’s probably better for kids to learn early on that yes, monsters are real."-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty
"I had always assumed love carried itself easily through various permutations and disintegrations. Now I find myself disassociating them from the people I had known my parents to be. I can't decide wh…"-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty
10. 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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- asian literature
- fiction
- contemporary
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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- literary fiction
- asia
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- china
12. Bread and Circus
By: Airea Dee Matthews
4.27
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
“Discerning and significant.” — Poetry Foundation “A sharp memoir in verse.” — LitHub This powe… read more
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- audiobook
13. A Magical Girl Retires
By: Park Seolyeon
3.63
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A millennial turned magical girl must combat climate change and credit card debt in this delightful… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"The person I loved and respected the most in the world called me a genius; therefore, I was a genius."-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires
"If I could become a magical girl at twenty-nine, then surely it was never too late to become a watchmaker."-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires
"Grandfather, I just love watches. When I look at them, I just... It's like they're a whole universe. The universe itself. Even the smallest watch."-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires
"She had a point. I mean, when did my own girlhood begin and end, exactly? I couldn't quite circle a lasso around it, but I knew, at least, when it had ended. Three years ago, when Grandfather died."-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires
14. Avant de brûler
By: Virginie DeChamplain
4.12
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Dans l’urgence d’une langue orale et indocile, Virginie DeChamplain imagine une post-apocalypse fém… read more
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15. Ghost Forest
By: Pik-Shuen Fung
4.15
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
How do you grieve, if your family doesn't talk about feelings? This is the question the unnamed … read more
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- literary fiction
- canada
- asia
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- family
- china
- adult
- audiobook
"I learned that it is important to be true to yourself. Many people do whatever society tells them to do. They’ve lost themselves. I grew up with Confucian values, and they are limiting. I focused onl…"-Pik-Shuen Fung, Ghost Forest
16. 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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- fiction
- adult
- canada
- 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
17. Hexa
By: Gabrielle Filteau-Chiba
4.28
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
L'espoir est une graine qu'il faut semer sans cesse, une génération après l'autre. Hexa sait qu'ell… read more
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18. Trees for the Absentees
By: Ahlam Bsharat
3.90
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Young love, meddling relatives, heart-to-hearts with friends real and imagined - Philistia's world … read more
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- adult
- fiction
19. The Magical Language of Others
By: E.J. Koh
3.87
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
The Magical Language of Others is a powerful and aching love story in letters, from mother to daugh… read more
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- asia
- contemporary
- asian literature
- adult
- audiobook
20. Virginia
By: Enrico Gabrielli
3.22
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
C'è una piccola casa nel bosco, in fondo alla strada delle Anime, dove vive un vecchio cacciatore i… read more
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21. Blue Light Hours
By: Bruna Dantas Lobato
4.08
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
One of Electric Literature’s “75 Books by Women of Color to Read in 2024” From the National Book… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
