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The 17 Best Books by Asian American Authors
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New York Times Bestseller
Audible 'On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous' by Ocean Vuong
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This beloved debut novel by Ocean Vuong garnered incredible praise and racked up numerous awards quickly after its release in 2019. It’s also an Editor’s Pick for Best Literature & Fiction on Amazon. It details the traumatic story of a mother and son with a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity.
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For Dads and Sons
Penguin Press 'A Map for the Missing' by Belinda Huijuantang
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Another Amazon Editor’s pick in Best Literature & Fiction, “A Map for the Missing” tells the story of Tang Yitian who has been living in America for almost a decade, when he receives a call from his mother that changes everything: He learns that his father has disappeared from the family’s rural village in China. He and his mother reunite to find his father and discover the meaning of family and forgiveness.
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Anchor 'Crazy Rich Asians Trilogy' by Kevin Kwan
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You’re likely familiar with the incredible film by the same name, but many reviewers claim the book, written by Asian American author Kevin Kwan, is even better.
In it, New Yorker Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend without any background information about his childhood home. She quickly learns the situation is not at all what she envisioned and she quickly gets sucked into a world of money, nosy relatives, and scheming social climbers.
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Best for Young Adults
Harper Teen 'The Silence that Binds Us' by Joanna Ho
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Already a New York Times bestselling author, Joanna Ho returns with a new novel, this time for young adult readers. In “The Silence That Binds Us,” Ho tells the tale of Maybelline Chen, who isn’t th Graphic storytelling is a medium that can capture the intricacies of identity and belonging in a way that prose can’t through the use of color, shading, and linework to denote different moods, time periods, and perspectives. My book, Advocate, utilizes these techniques to represent the different parts of my identity: the son of Korean immigrants, but also as an artist, an environmental justice lawyer, and a nonprofit worker working with diverse communities. Through Advocate, I wanted to create a persuasive narrative not just for readers, but for my own family, who had always struggled to understand my nonprofit career. Comics allowed me to juxtapose the conflicts within my family and my own ongoing work. Looking back on the wide range of artistic styles in my favorite graphic memoirs also inspired me to explore different visual storytelling techniques. As a self-taught artist working directly on paper, I selected and purchased each color of my Copic markers very carefully, thinking through how color shades denoted the time and mood for different periods of my life (shades of red to symbolize my youth and early passions, purple to symbolize a period of transition and learning). In later pages, these colors mix and meld on the page as I reflect on my past or use flashbacks as a narrative technique. After exploring so many different colors and eras, I’m happy to have settled in a calmer state of mind today, which is reflected in the shades of blue in my final chapter. My book follows in a rich history of Asian American illustrators and authors, each telling and drawing stories of their family history in their own distinct style. Below are 7 graphic memoirs by Asian American authors that explore coming of age, familial legacy, and inheritance. Acclaimed graphic novelist Yang was a teacher at Bishop O’Dowd High School in Oakland and his latest book dramatizes the basketball team’s journey to the California state champions From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This is a list of Asian American writers, authors, and poets who have Wikipedia pages. Their works are considered part of Asian American literature. .Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang
List of Asian-American writers
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