By Joshua Holland NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY In a world full of seemingly increased shared prosperity and more opportunities, life for people today is better than ever. Increasingly however, in the wake of high profile suicides of beloved celebrities like Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain, who on the surface seemed to have it all, many have […]
Book recommendations
By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly The Kiss Quotient By Helen Hoang Berkley, 2018 For Stella Lane, math is everything and her job of coming up with algorithms to predict customer purchases has given her more money than she knows what to do with, but not enough experience in the dating department. So when her […]
Book recommendations: Murder mysteries
By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly Death by Dumpling By Vivien Chien St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 2018 Now that she is an adult, the last place Lana Lee thought she would end up is back at her family’s Chinese restaurant. But life happened — a bad break-up and dramatic walkout from her job have landed her […]
Book recommendations
By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows: A Novel By Balli Kaur Jaswal William Morrow, 2017 As the daughter of Indian immigrants, Nikki’s life is in cosmopolitan West London, where she’s a bartender at a local pub. She has spent most of her life distancing herself from the traditional Sikh community […]
Book recommendations — Life’s unexpected turns
By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly How to American By Jimmy O. Yang Da Capo Press, 2018 When Jimmy O. Yang graduated from college at the University of California, San Diego, he received a degree in economics. But he knew the last thing he wanted to do was to work in the field he had […]
Book recommendations — When things don’t go as planned…
By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly Checked By Cynthia Kadohata Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, 2018 For 11-year-old Conor, hockey is life. Everything else comes second — except his dad. Although he’s not positive, Conor is pretty sure hockey is the reason his stepmom Jenny left them. Because the sport is also his dad’s life. One of […]
Stories of revelations — Book recommendations
By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly Wires and Nerve, Volume 2: Gone Rogue By Marissa Meyer Feiwel & Friends, 2018 In the second installment of Meyer’s “Wires and Nerve” graphic novel series, we return to the world of the Lunar Chronicles. The story picks up where the first novel left off, with Iko the android […]
Book review: Better Together — 8 Ways Working with Women Leads to Extraordinary Products and Profits
By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly There are many things companies can do to be successful, from streamlining processes to recruiting prospective employees at top colleges and universities in the country. In addition to working to make sure they have the best possible employees, companies can also look at who they are hiring. In […]
Top 10 reads of 2017
By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly Well readers, we survived 2017. And with the year coming to an end, it’s a time to reflect. So here, I give you the top 10 books I have read this year. Check them out for yourself or give them as a gift for the bookworm in your life […]
A visual record of wartime incarceration
By Laura Rehrmann “In the snow remaining in the advent of spring, I can see various kinds of birds singing and playing. The beautiful stripes of yellow sunlight peek through from among the dry willow trees. Although it is still very cold, the hope of seeing another spring gives me a warm feeling.” — Takuichi […]
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