By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly “The Way You Make Me Feel” By Maureen Goo Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018 Clara Shin doesn’t take life too seriously. For her, it’s all about pranks and disrupting the status quo. But when one of her pranks goes too far, her dad forces her to spend her summer […]
Book recommendations: Questioning the status quo
By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly Go By Kazuki Kaneshiro, translated by Takami Nieda AmazonCrossing, 2018 As a Korean student attending a Japanese high school, Sugihara has been in (and won) his fair share of fights with bullies who have targeted him for his ethnicity. But then he falls in love with Sakurai, a Japanese […]
Fostering positive mental health in your community
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 […]
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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 […]
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