Although the term “South Asian” refers to eight countries, many people still often associate it with just India.
New Carnegie Medal winners Megha Majumdar and Yiyun Li love libraries
Novelist Megha Majumdar, one of this year’s winners of medals presented by the American Library Association, doesn’t only visit libraries for the reading.
Trish Hackett Nicola’s new book chronicles Chinese in Washington during Exclusion Act era
Growing up in western New York state, Trish Hackett Nicola didn’t know anything about the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
Taiwanese Canadian Amanda Sung will visit Seattle’s mam’s Books to talk about debut novel
While in graduate school, Taiwanese Canadian Amanda Sung was given the opportunity to write a memoir as a thesis.
Book Review: Elaine Hsieh Chou dazzles in short story collection ‘Where Are You Really From’
An awkward adolescent girl travels from the United States to visit her grandmother and other relatives in Taipei, where she becomes obsessed by her older girl cousin and the bizarre fantasy of cooking and eating a woman who works in the dumpling store downstairs.
‘Never Again Is Now’: Frank Abe links wartime incarceration to today’s immigration policies
“Kind of a sour way” to spend a Saturday, Frank Abe said.
Uncovering overlooked Asian WWII stories—and their modern echoes—in “Blue Skies, Troubled Waters”
“This book is a reintroduction to this cultural historical World War Two (WWII) memoir penned by my Grandma, Martha Walandouw Lohn,” Brian Kimmel’s note to readers of “Blue Skies, Troubled Waters” begins.
Seattle’s Kim Fu on writing, working, and walking the city
Chinese Canadian author Kim Fu moved here from British Columbia. But she judges her Seattle neighborhoods by interconnectedness—and more specifically, walking distances.
Book Review: ‘The Hiroshima Men’ is a reminder of the horrific human costs of atomic attack
John Hersey was a 32-year-old reporter who returned from Japan in 1946 with a groundbreaking story that challenged the U.S. government’s version of its atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima, showing the human consequences were far more horrific and extensive than the American public had been told.
Artist and attorney Eddie Ahn juggles two worlds in life and new graphic novel, “Advocate”
Many creatives have to work another job to support their art.