9 Top asia books like Growing Up Perempuan by Filzah Sumartono

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Similar categories in Noam Chomsky's On Palestine book and Filzah Sumartono's Growing Up Perempuan

• nonfiction

"It's quite standard for those who hold the clubs to say: "Forget about everything that happened and let's just go on from here." In other words, "I've got what I want, and out forget about what your …"

-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine

"How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply forget that we are. We are all born with compassion, generosity, and love for others…"

-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine

Similar categories in Qiu Miaojin's Notes of a Crocodile book and Filzah Sumartono's Growing Up Perempuan

• asia

"Unhealthy love is two people stoking a shared fantasy of desperate beauty, weaponizing passion and desire."

-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile

"Secretly though, I did sort of enjoy being a fucked-up mess. Apart from that, I didn't have a whole lot going on."

-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile

"Like death, college serves as a kind of escape hatch. But while death takes you straight to the morgue, college is a single rope dangling loose from the inescapable net of society."

-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile

"Sweeping that other me into their arms, they led me in a dance within societal norms, along a trajectory based on a delusion. (Though I couldn't define what I was, I knew what I wasn't.)"

-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile

Similar categories in Chi-Young Kim's The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: Guidance on the Path to Mindfulness from a Spiritual Leader book and Filzah Sumartono's Growing Up Perempuan

• nonfiction

Similar categories in Timothy Conigrave's Holding the Man book and Filzah Sumartono's Growing Up Perempuan

Similar categories in Ilan Pappé's Ten Myths about Israel book and Filzah Sumartono's Growing Up Perempuan

Similar categories in Mieko Kawakami's All the Lovers in the Night book and Filzah Sumartono's Growing Up Perempuan

• asian literature
• asia

"It only took me a couple of hours to realise that she was a woman of talents beyond anything I could imagine - even though I was a stranger to such talents myself."

-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

"The light at night is special because the overwhelming light of day has left us, and the remaining half draws on everything it has to keep the world around us bright."

-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

"When I felt sleepy I slept, and when I opened my eyes I got up, letting hunger dictate when to head to the fridge or kitchen cabinet to eat some of the things that I'd stocked up on. When supplies ra…"

-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

"When I felt sleepy I slept, and when I opened my eyes I got up, letting hunger dictate when to head to the fridge or kitchen cabinet to eat some of the things that I'd stocked up on. When supplies ra…"

-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

Similar categories in Keigo Higashino's The Miracles of the Namiya General Store book and Filzah Sumartono's Growing Up Perempuan

• asian literature

"People who live with their head in the clouds deserve to hit the ground every once in a while."

-Keigo Higashino, The Miracles of the Namiya General Store

"Believe me. No matter how bad things are today, they’ll be far better tomorrow. — Namiya General Store"

-Keigo Higashino, The Miracles of the Namiya General Store

"Be a fighter. Give it everything you’ve got. Even a losing battle is worth fighting. Go out and make your mark."

-Keigo Higashino, The Miracles of the Namiya General Store

"It would destroy the very meaning of a family unit if everyone with their separate ways over fleeting feelings of anger or impatience."

-Keigo Higashino, The Miracles of the Namiya General Store

Similar categories in Mizuki Tsujimura's Lonely Castle in the Mirror book and Filzah Sumartono's Growing Up Perempuan

• asian literature

"In another world, we were already friends."

-Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

"You're battling every single day, aren't you?"

-Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

"Her mother always said this. That no matter how disgusted you might be with a friend, you should never speak ill of them."

-Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

"Houses just like the one she lived in; tall condos, apartment buildings that looked, from where she stood, like matchboxes. In the distance, she could catch the lights flickering in the supermarket. …"

-Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

Similar categories in Sayaka Murata's Life Ceremony book and Filzah Sumartono's Growing Up Perempuan

• asian literature
• asia
• short stories

"Nowadays, your partner is not necessarily a sex object - this is a wonderful advancement."

-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony

"I'm seeking an amicable daily routine with someone I get along well with, like brother and sister, without being a slave to sex"

-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony

"Walking like this, feeling like a feral human, even machines and buildings were warm to the touch, and some emitted sounds and vibrations. Their presence was similar to the sounds emitted by life-for…"

-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony

"If they tried it, the memories of the wild rooted in their flesh would come back to them, and they would discover that eating the city like this would connect the earth between the gaps in the concre…"

-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony

Similar categories in Julie Smith's Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? book and Filzah Sumartono's Growing Up Perempuan

• nonfiction

"When we focus on trying to fix the problem, it is easy to underestimate the power of simply being there."

-Julie Smith, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

"In acceptance, the new reality is still not OK. It is still not as we want it to be. But we begin to take on the new reality, listen to our needs, open up to new experiences and make connections."

-Julie Smith, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

Similar categories in Hwang Bo-Reum's Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop book and Filzah Sumartono's Growing Up Perempuan

• asian literature

"Why? Because we only get one shot in life, and we're living it now."

-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day."

-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day'."

-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be a success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day."

-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

Similar categories in Grace Tioso's Perkumpulan Anak Luar Nikah book and Filzah Sumartono's Growing Up Perempuan

Similar categories in Huda Fahmy's Huda F Are You? book and Filzah Sumartono's Growing Up Perempuan

"Use your hijab, woman! Cover that forehead!"

-Huda Fahmy, Huda F Are You?

"I swear if we end up getting joint weddings, we're running away."

-Huda Fahmy, Huda F Are You?

Similar categories in Emi Yagi's Diary of a Void book and Filzah Sumartono's Growing Up Perempuan

• asian literature
• feminism
• asia

"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

Similar categories in Guadalupe Nettel's Still Born book and Filzah Sumartono's Growing Up Perempuan

• feminism

"Thoughts are like clouds moving in the sky, you know? Before you know it, they change shape or they just aren't there anymore."

-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born

"There is a word to describe someone who loses their spouse, and a word for children who are left without parents. There is no word, however, for a parent who loses their child."

-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born

"A mí me intrigan más las aves a las que parasitan. Según yo, saben que no son sus crías y aun así las cuidan y las atienden. Yo pienso que llega un punto en que todas las madres nos damos cuenta de e…"

-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born

"A mí me intrigan más las aves a las que parasitan. Según yo, saben que no son sus crías y aun así las cuidan y las atienden. Yo pienso que llega un punto en que todas las madres nos damos cuenta de e…"

-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born

Similar categories in Michiko Aoyama's What You Are Looking For Is in the Library book and Filzah Sumartono's Growing Up Perempuan

• short stories

Similar categories in Samra Habib's We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir book and Filzah Sumartono's Growing Up Perempuan

• feminism
• nonfiction

"Being surrounded by people who fuel you is intentional."

-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

"For me, a wedding was an act of necessity, not a fairy tale."

-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

"The joy of discovery is one of the biggest pleasures you'll ever know."

-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

"Closure, for me, would mean accepting my circumstances rather than trying to alter them to serve me best."

-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

Similar categories in Balli Kaur Jaswal's Now You See Us book and Filzah Sumartono's Growing Up Perempuan

• asian literature
• asia

Similar categories in Yū Miri's Tokyo Ueno Station book and Filzah Sumartono's Growing Up Perempuan

• asian literature
• asia

"There’s that sound again."

-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station

"To speak is to stumble, to hesitate, to detour and hit dead ends. To listen is straightforward. You can always just listen."

-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station

"I was always tired. There was never a time I was not tired. Not when life had its claws in me, and not when I escaped from it. I did not live with intent, I only lived. But that’s all over now."

-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station

"I used to think life was like a book: you turn the first page, and there’s the next, and as you go on turning page after page, eventually you reach the last one. But life is nothing like a story in a…"

-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station

Similar categories in Susan Abulhawa's Against the Loveless World book and Filzah Sumartono's Growing Up Perempuan

• feminism

"From him I learned who those legislating morality and pretending to be more virtuous than the rest of us really are."

-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

"But I know now that going from place to place is just something exiles have to do. Whatever the reason, the earth is never steady beneath our feet."

-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

"The continuity of these traditions helped bridge the spaces between dislocation and the home I had forged in my birthright homeland, but I knew I could never again be complete in one place. This was …"

-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

"Music is like spoken language, inextricable from its culture. If you don't learn a language early in life, its words will forever come out wrinkled and accented by another world, no matter how well y…"

-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

Similar categories in Kristian-Marc James Paul's Brown Is Redacted book and Filzah Sumartono's Growing Up Perempuan

• race
• nonfiction

Similar categories in You Yenn Teo's This Is What Inequality Looks Like book and Filzah Sumartono's Growing Up Perempuan

• asia
• nonfiction

"Memories sustain us — they tell us who we are and to whom we’re connected."

-You Yenn Teo, This Is What Inequality Looks Like

"What we do and do not do are shaped by our sense of how others are — shared understandings of right and wrong, good and bad, valuable and worthless. The pathways and practices we end up taking are re…"

-You Yenn Teo, This Is What Inequality Looks Like

Similar categories in Shiori Itō's Black Box book and Filzah Sumartono's Growing Up Perempuan

• asian literature
• feminism
• nonfiction
• asia

"I needed to communicate all of this in my own words, with my own voice. If I waited for someone else to speak out, things would never change."

-Shiori Itō, Black Box

"If I were going to die, there would be time for that later--after doing everything I could and using all that I had to confront the systemic problems that I knew needed to change."

-Shiori Itō, Black Box

"I felt as though everything inside me had been obliterated. However much I tried, however much I wanted to go back to being who I was before, it was impossible--all that was left was an empty husk of…"

-Shiori Itō, Black Box

Similar categories in Haemin Sunim's When Things Don't Go Your Way: Zen Wisdom for Difficult Times book and Filzah Sumartono's Growing Up Perempuan

• nonfiction

Similar categories in Shailey Hingorani's What We Inherit: Growing Up Indian book and Filzah Sumartono's Growing Up Perempuan

• nonfiction

Similar categories in Nazry Bahrawi's Singa-Pura-Pura book and Filzah Sumartono's Growing Up Perempuan

• asian literature
• short stories

Similar categories in Liyana Dhamirah's Homeless book and Filzah Sumartono's Growing Up Perempuan

• nonfiction

Similar categories in Ong Chin Huat's Harmony Heights book and Filzah Sumartono's Growing Up Perempuan

Similar categories in Emily Lim-Leh's Little Hero book and Filzah Sumartono's Growing Up Perempuan

Similar categories in Kalis Mardiasih's Luka-luka Linimasa book and Filzah Sumartono's Growing Up Perempuan

Similar categories in Filzah Sumartono's Growing Up Perempuan book and Filzah Sumartono's Growing Up Perempuan

• race
• feminism
• asia
• short stories
• nonfiction
• asian literature