Concepcion: An Immigrant Family's Fortunes
By: Albert Samaha
4.06
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
"Absolutely extraordinary...A landmark in the contemporary literature of the diaspora." --Jia Tolen…
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1. America Is in the Heart: A Personal History
By: Carlos Bulosan , Carey McWilliams
3.91
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
First published in 1946, this autobiography of the well known Filipino poet describes his boyhood i… read more
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2. The Glass Palace
By: Amitav Ghosh
3.77
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel by Amitav Ghosh tells the sto… read more
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3. Ilustrado
By: Miguel Syjuco
2.96
Format: None pages, Hardcover
It begins with a body. On a clear day in winter, the battered corpse of Crispin Salvador is pulled … read more
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4. Dearborn
By: Ghassan Zeineddine
4.23
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Spanning several decades, Ghassan Zeineddine’s debut collection examines the diverse range and comp… read more
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5. Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
By: Patricia Evangelista
4.18
Format: 428 pages, Hardcover
A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into violent autocracy—t… read more
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6. River East, River West
By: Aube Rey Lescure
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Set against the backdrop of developing modern Chin… read more
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"They each had puzzle pieces that might never lock into a flat smooth hole."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She was alone and grown. And had somehow done the worst thing a Chinese woman could do, whore herself out to a white man"-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She told her mother the most important, most devastating thing that had happened to her and somehow it had turned into a fight."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She still said nothing. You are fifteen and this is living life, she thought. She'd be like Serena or Blair or those girls on TV. Powerful."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
7. How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
By: Alexander Chee
4.39
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is the author’s manifesto on the entangling of life, literat… read more
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"Destroying art is practice for destroying people."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"A novel, should it survive, protects what a missile can't."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"...books were still to me as they had been when I found them: the only magic."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"My first novel was not the first one I started. It was the first one I finished."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
8. Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation
By: Geena Rocero
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
“A moving chronicle of trans resilience and joy” (Vogue) from one of Out100’s Most Impactful and In… read more
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"Geena, you speak about transgender rights and FIlipino food with equal expertise."-Geena Rocero, Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation
"That's the thing about trans joy: It can never be fully extinguished. People can try to narrow the possibilities for our lives, even end them, but our spirits will always expand to fill whatever spac…"-Geena Rocero, Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation
"I didn't need to come out ot her. I never said those declarative words - and I didn't even know them at the time. Vocabulary like trans would come much later in my life. All I needed was to hear the …"-Geena Rocero, Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation
"Despite the ubiquity of government-organized trans pageants in the Philippines, trans people themselves are not politically recognized. We are culturally visible but legally erased. To this day, tran…"-Geena Rocero, Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation
9. The Storm We Made
By: Vanessa Chan
3.87
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781668015148. A novel about a Malayan mother who becomes an unl… read more
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10. Neighbors and Other Stories
By: Diane Oliver
4.04
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day… read more
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"Sometimes I wonder why more of us ain't dead."-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories
"He loved them, he had to. After all, they were his, but sometimes loving became a burden. And if he had met them at the bus station, perhaps they would have become that to him."-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories
"By giving woman the exalted position, the man takes away her freedom. By treating her like a goddess, he forces her to act like a goddess... but the man is then free to act like a human being."-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories
"He's going to wonder why, and how are we going to tell him we're afraid of them?" Her father's hand clutched the coffee cup. "He's going to be fighting them the rest of his life. He's got to start so…"-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories
11. Angels of the Pacific
By: Elise Hooper
4.21
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Their survival would depend on sisterhood and service. Inspired by the extraordinary true storie… read more
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"No one survives a war's front lines without ghosts clinging to them."-Elise Hooper, Angels of the Pacific
12. America Is Not the Heart
By: Elaine Castillo
3.98
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
Three generations of women from one immigrant family trying to reconcile the home they left behind … read more
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"There are mercies, and there are mercies."-Elaine Castillo, America Is Not the Heart
"A name had a lifespan like anything else."-Elaine Castillo, America Is Not the Heart
"You know what it's like to have a fate; you also know what it's like to escape one."-Elaine Castillo, America Is Not the Heart
"You don’t ever really stop having a song. It’s easier to stop having a person than to stop having a song."-Elaine Castillo, America Is Not the Heart
13. How to Stand Up to a Dictator
By: Maria Ressa
4.34
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
What will you sacrifice for the truth? Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. Bu… read more
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14. Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
By: Jose Antonio Vargas
4.30
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, called “the most famous undocumented immigra… read more
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"Home is not something I should have to earn."-Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
"Humanity is not some box I should have to check."-Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
"Here in America, the libraries were my church, and I was an acolyte."-Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
"Dear America, is this what you really want? Do you even know what is happening in your name?"-Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
15. 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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"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
16. A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
4.35
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewind… read more
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17. Mixed Plate: Chronicles of an All-American Combo
By: Jo Koy
4.23
Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition
A stunning, hilarious memoir from beloved comedian Jo Koy, “far and away one of the funniest people… read more
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18. 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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19. The Body Papers
By: Grace Talusan
4.29
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Winner of The Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Grace Talusan’s memoir The Body Paper… read more
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20. Concepcion: An Immigrant Family's Fortunes
By: Albert Samaha
4.06
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
"Absolutely extraordinary...A landmark in the contemporary literature of the diaspora." --Jia Tolen… read more
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21. Malaya: Essays on Freedom
By: Cinelle Barnes
4.36
Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition
From Cinelle Barnes, author of the memoir Monsoon Mansion, comes a moving and reflective essay coll… read more
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"Books did not discriminate, at least not explicitly."-Cinelle Barnes, Malaya: Essays on Freedom
"Maybe I am finally the enigma she can’t decode. Maybe I like to be a mystery. What child of trauma doesn’t?"-Cinelle Barnes, Malaya: Essays on Freedom
"Acting as family historian, I know now, is really just telling myself the story I already knew. I wait not on anybody else's affirmation, just my own. And here, in expecting only my own validation, i…"-Cinelle Barnes, Malaya: Essays on Freedom
"Books, art, fashion, history—were these not the things I had been erased from once I was deemed unfit to be a protected member of a state? Don’t we call them the humanities because they are supposedl…"-Cinelle Barnes, Malaya: Essays on Freedom
