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• The Farm

  a Novel

  Ramos, Joanne

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  Nestled in New York’s Hudson Valley is a luxury retreat boasting every amenity. The catch? For nine months, you cannot leave the grounds while you dedicate yourself to the task of producing the perfect baby. For someone else. Jane, an immigrant from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• In the Country

  Stories

  Alvar, Mia, 1978-

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  In these nine globe-trotting tales, Mia Alvar gives voice to the women and men of the Philippines and its diaspora. From teachers to housemaids, from mothers to sons, Alvar’s stories explore the universal experiences of loss, displacement, and the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Joy Luck Club

  Tan, Amy,

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  Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who’s “saying” the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Crazy Rich Asians

  Kwan, Kevin

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  When New Yorker Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home and quality time with the man she hopes to marry. But Nick has failed to give his girlfriend a few key details.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Little Fires Everywhere

  a Novel

  Ng, Celeste,

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  From the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, a riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives.

• The Woman Warrior

  Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

  Kingston, Maxine Hong

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  In her award-winning book The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston created an entirely new form—an exhilarating blend of autobiography and mythology, of world and self, of hot rage and cool analysis. First published in 1976, it has become a classic…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• White Chrysanthemum

  Bracht, Mary Lynn,

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  For fans of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko and Lilac Girls, the heartbreaking history of Korea is brought to life in this deeply moving and redemptive debut that follows two sisters separated by World War II. Suspenseful, hopeful, and ultimately redemptive,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A River of Stars

  a Novel

  Hua, Vanessa,

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  In a powerful debut about modern-day motherhood, immigration, and identity, a pregnant Chinese woman stakes a claim to the American dream in California. A River of Stars is a vivid examination of home and belonging and a moving portrayal of a woman…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Little Life

  a Novel

  Yanagihara, Hanya,

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  A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lowland

  a Novel

  Lahiri, Jhumpa

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  The Lowland is an engrossing family saga steeped in history: the story of two very different brothers bound by tragedy, a fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past, a country torn apart by revolution, and a love that endures long past death.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Exhalation

  Chiang, Ted,

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  From the acclaimed author of Stories of Your Life and Others—the basis for the Academy Award –nominated film Arrival—comes a groundbreaking new collection of short fiction: nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories. These are tales…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Home Remedies

  Stories

  Wang, Xuan Juliana

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  The twelve stories in Xuan Juliana Wang’s remarkable debut collection capture the unheard voices of a new generation of Chinese youth. A generation for whom the Cultural Revolution is a distant memory, WeChat is king, and life glitters with the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Kiss Quotient

  Hoang, Helen,

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  Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases—a job that has given her more money than she knows what to do with, and way less experience in the dating department than…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Where Reasons End

  a Novel

  Li, Yiyun, 1972-

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  Yiyun Li meets life’s deepest sorrows as she imagines a conversation between a mother and child in a timeless world. Composed in the months after she lost a child to suicide, Where Reasons End trespasses into the space between life and death as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• On Such a Full Sea

  Lee, Chang-rae,

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  From the beloved award-winning author of Native Speaker and The Surrendered, a highly provocative, deeply affecting story of one woman’s legendary quest in a shocking, future America.

• Natalie Tan's Book of Luck and Fortune

  Lim, Roselle

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  Lush and visual, chock-full of delicious recipes, Roselle Lim’s magical debut novel is about food, heritage, and finding family in the most unexpected places.

• How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

  A Novel

  Yu, Charles

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  Every day in Minor Universe 31 people get into time machines and try to change the past. That’s where Charles Yu, time travel technician, steps in. He helps save people from themselves. Literally. When he’s not taking client calls, Yu visits his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

  a Novel

  Ford, Jamie

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  In 1986, Henry Lee joins a crowd outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle’s Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has discovered the belongings of Japanese families who were sent to internment camps during…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• America Is Not the Heart

  Castillo, Elaine

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  An increasingly relevant story told with startling lucidity, humor, and an uncanny ear for the intimacies and shorthand of family ritual, America Is Not the Heart is a sprawling, soulful debut about three generations of women in one family…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Farm

  a Novel

  Ramos, Joanne,

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