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Book review: Better Together — 8 Ways Working with Women Leads to Extraordinary Products and Profits

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  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 […]

A visual record of wartime incarceration

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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 […]

Book recommendations — Growing up as an API male

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By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly Chef Roy Choi and the Street Food Remix Written by Jacqueline Briggs Martin and June Jo Lee, Illustrated by Man One Readers to Eaters, 2017 As a boy, Roy Choi loved his mother’s cooking. From her tangy kimchi and spicy bibimbap, to her scallion pancakes studded with oysters, his […]

Children overcoming hard times

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By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly First They Killed My Father By Loung Ung HarperCollins Publishers, 2010 At the age of 5, Loung Ung is living in Phnom Penh as the daughter of a high-ranking government official. She enjoys visiting the open markets, chicken fights, eating fried crickets, and sassing her parents. But then Pol […]

Amy Tan returns to Seattle with new memoir: Where the Past Begins

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By Callie Chinn SPECIAL TO THE NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Out of only six U.S. cities, renowned author Amy Tan visited Seattle on Oct. 25 to discuss her latest work, Where the Past Begins: A Writer’s Memoir. The book made The New York Times bestseller list in just one week after its release. I had just […]

Underdogs prevail

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By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly Momotaro: Xander and the Lost Island of Monsters Written by Margaret Dilloway, illustrated by Choong Yoon Disney Hyperion, 2016 Xander Miyamoto is not exactly what you’d call hero material. Athletics are not his strength and at 12, all the sixth-grader wants to do is draw comics and create computer […]

The complicated lives of API females

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By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly Heroine Worship By Sarah Kuhn DAW Books Inc., 2017 Aveda Jupiter (also known as Annie Chang) had been the one to protect San Francisco from demons for a long time. But after being sidelined by an injury and watching her best friend and former assistant Evie Tanaka take her […]

NWAW’s July book recs — Books on deeper truths that you should read

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By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly “Starry River of the Sky” By Grace Lin Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2012 The moon has gone missing, but the only person in the remote Village of Clear Sky who has seemed to notice is its newest resident, a young boy named Rendi. A runaway who now […]