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Dragon Hoops

Gene Luen Yang - First Second
Format: Book

In his latest graphic novel, Dragon Hoops, New York Times bestselling author Gene Luen Yang turns the spotlight on his life, his family, and the high school where he teaches. Gene understands stories - comic book stories, in particular. Big action. Bigger thrills....

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Kaleidoscope: A Novel

Cecily Wong - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

A dazzling and heartfelt novel about two sisters caught in their parents' ambition, the accident that brings it all crashing down, and the journey that follows. Everybody's heard of The Brightons. From rags to riches, sleepy Oregon to haute New York, they are the biracial Chinese...
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Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Malinda Lo
Format: Book

Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall...

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A Map for the Missing: A Novel

Belinda Huijuan Tang - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

"Belinda Huijuan Tang's debut novel is a beautifully drawn, sensitively rendered portrait of a man desperately searching for his father - and for reconnection to the past and people he once knew and loved. Both rich in historical detail and timeless in scope, A Map for the Missing...
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Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming

Ava Chin - Penguin Press
Format: Book

From the winner of the M.F.K. Fisher Book Prize and a New York Public Library Cullman fellow, comes a sweeping narrative history of the Chinese Exclusion Act through an intimate portrayal of one family's epic journey to lay down roots in America as the only child of a single mother...

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Natural Beauty: A Novel

Ling Ling Huang - Dutton
Format: Book

Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obsessed world where perfection comes at a staggering cost. Our narrator produces a sound from the piano no one else at the conservatory can. She employs a technique she learned from her parents...

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Oh My Mother!: A Memoir in Nine Adventures

Connie Wang - ‎Viking
Format: Book

A dazzling mother-daughter adventure around the world in pursuit of self-discovery, a family reckoning, and Asian American defiance. In Chinese, the closest expression to oh my god is wo de ma ya. It's an interjection, a polite expletive, something to say when you're...

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Portrait of a Thief: A Novel

Grace D. Li - Tiny Reparations Books
Format: Paperback

The thefts are engaging and surprising, and the narrative brims with international intrigue. Li, however, has delivered more than a straight thriller here, especially in the parts that depict the despair Will and his pals feel at being displaced, overlooked, underestimated, and discriminated...

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Severance: A Novel

Ling Ma - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Book

Maybe it's the end of the world, but not for Candace Chen, a millennial, first-generation American and office drone meandering her way into adulthood in Ling Ma's offbeat, wryly funny, apocalyptic satire, Severance. Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan...

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Stone Fruit

Lee Lai - Fantagraphics
Format: Hardcover

An exhilarating and tender debut graphic novel that is an ode to the love and connection shared among three women and the child they all adore. Bron and Ray are a queer couple who enjoy their role as the fun weirdo aunties to Ray's niece, six-year-old Nessie. Their playdates are little...
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The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu

Tom Lin - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Book

Orphaned as a baby, Ming Tsu, the son of Chinese immigrants, is raised by the notorious leader of a California crime syndicate, who trains him to be his deadly enforcer. But when Ming falls in love with Ada, the daughter of a powerful railroad magnate, and the two elope, he seizes the opportunity...

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Tomorrow in Shanghai: Stories

MAY-LEE CHAI - Blair
Format: Paperback

A short story collection exploring cultural complexities in China, the Chinese diaspora in America, and the world at large. In a vibrant and illuminating follow-up to her award-winning story collection, Useful Phrases for Immigrants, May-lee Chai's latest collection Tomorrow in Shanghai...

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The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories: A Collection of Chinese Science Fiction and Fantasy in Translation

Yu Chen - Tordotcom
Format: Book

In The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories, you can dine at a restaurant at the end of the universe, cultivate to immortality in the high mountains, watch roses perform Shakespeare, or arrive at the island of the gods on the backs of giant fish to ensure that the world can bloom....

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