Win Me Something
By: Kyle Lucia Wu
3.55
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A NPR, Electric Lit, and Entropy Best Book of the Year A Washington Post , Shondaland , NPR Books, …
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1. Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home
By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
3.77
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Lambda Literary Award finalist In 1996, poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ran away from America… read more
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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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"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. Real Americans
By: Rachel Khong
4.04
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny?… read more
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"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."-Rachel Khong, Real Americans
"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"-Rachel Khong, Real Americans
"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"-Rachel Khong, Real Americans
4. Olga Dies Dreaming
By: Xóchitl González
3.98
Format: 369 pages, Hardcover
It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown… read more
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"It's a myth about motherhood, Olga felt, that the time in utero imbues mothers with a lifelong understanding of their children. Yes, they know their essences, this she didn't doubt, but mothers are s…"-Xóchitl González, Olga Dies Dreaming
5. Joan Is Okay
By: Weike Wang
3.67
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A witty, moving, piercingly insightful new novel about a marvelously complicated woman who can’t be… read more
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"I wasn't a genius in the end, but a girl could still hope."-Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay
"A woman who twirls her hair while speaking is a woman never to be taken seriously"-Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay
"The average Joe in America is expected to move 11.3 times in his life. Who knows about Average Jane."-Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay
"Proud to be an American, a feeling that I lacked but also a phrase that I didn't think applied to me."-Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay
6. True Biz
By: Sara Nović
4.08
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
TRUE BIZ (adj./exclamation; American Sign Language): really, seriously, definitely, real-talk Tr… read more
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"No one is comforted by salad."-Sara Nović, True Biz
"maybe standing for something wasn't always a choice"-Sara Nović, True Biz
"Reason is for people who still have something to fear."-Sara Nović, True Biz
"fewer things were more motivating than a fear of one's own extinction."-Sara Nović, True Biz
7. Paper Names
By: Susie Luo
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An unexpected act of violence brings together a Chinese-American family and a wealthy white lawyer … read more
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"Repetition. That was my father’s philosophy on learning. It applied not only to the piano, but my studies too. Before every test, he made me write out every single word from the textbook chapter, twi…"-Susie Luo, Paper Names
8. The New American
By: Micheline Aharonian Marcom
3.94
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The epic journey of a young Guatemalan American college student, a “dreamer,” who gets deported and… read more
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9. The Myth of Surrender
By: Kelly O'Connor McNees
4.15
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 1960, free-spirited Doreen is a recent high-school grad and waitress in a Chicago diner. She doe… read more
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10. Fiona and Jane
By: Jean Chen Ho
3.31
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A witty, warm, and irreverent book that traces the lives of two young Taiwanese American women as t… read more
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11. Win Me Something
By: Kyle Lucia Wu
3.55
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A NPR, Electric Lit, and Entropy Best Book of the Year A Washington Post , Shondaland , NPR Books, … read more
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12. It's a Privilege Just to Be Here
By: Emma Sasaki
3.82
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
This debut novel pulls at the threads in the (cashmere) sweater of academia in a witty take-down of… read more
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13. 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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14. Monster in the Middle
By: Tiphanie Yanique
3.19
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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15. Central Places
By: Delia Cai
3.51
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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16. Days of Distraction
By: Alexandra Chang
3.58
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A wry, tender portrait of a young woman — finally free to decide her own path, but unsure if she kn… read more
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"What greater loneliness and longing is there than living with someone you once knew so well, and who is now hardly around?"-Alexandra Chang, Days of Distraction
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"And from those brief moments I was living with a certainty that I was exactly where I should be, where everything is deeply quiet and deeply alive. I thought about the many aspects in this life that …"-Alexandra Chang, Days of Distraction
17. The Rib King
By: Ladee Hubbard
3.50
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
Upstairs, Downstairs meets Parasite: The acclaimed author of The Talented Ribkins deconstructs pain… read more
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18. Hombrecito
By: Santiago Jose Sanchez
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A novel by a brilliant new voice, Hombrecito is a queer coming-of-age story about a young immigrant… read more
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19. Edge Case
By: YZ Chin
3.33
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Editors' Choice When her husband suddenly disappears, a young woman must uncove… read more
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20. Volume 0: Issue Two
By: Marian Crotty
3.55
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
We've always loved short stories. We see many great ones in our literary pursuits, and we want t… read more
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21. A Manual for How to Love Us
By: Erin Slaughter
3.55
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A debut, interlinked collection of stories exploring the primal nature of women's grief--offering i… read more
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