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| “Quiet, astonishing lyrics. Vuong conjoins the figures of motherhood and time (the speaker’s mother works at a local clock factory, for example), while drawing from the deep wellspring of his Vietnamese heritage.” |
| —Diego Baez, Booklist |
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| Now streaming on Apple TV+. “A deep, broad, addictive history of a Korean family in Japan enduring and prospering through the 20th century.” |
| —David Mitchell, Guardian |
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| “Afterparties weaves through a Cambodian-American community in the shadow of genocide, following the children of refugees as they grapple with the complexities of masculinity, class, and family. . . . A stunning collection.” |
| —Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing Half |
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| Rise is a love letter to and for Asian Americans—a vivid scrapbook of voices, emotions, and memories from an era in which our culture was forged and transformed, and a way to preserve both the headlines and the intimate conversations that have shaped our community. |
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| “The true magic of this tale can be felt in how Washburn alchemizes Hawaiian myth and lore into a modern family epic. There’s something bewitching in Washburn’s prose—the furious, lively spell of it.” |
| —Kaui Hart Hemmings, O: The Oprah Magazine |
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| In Sensorium interlaces eons of South Asian perfume history, erotic and religious texts, survivor testimonies, and material culture with memoir. It is archive and art, illuminating the great crises of our time with the language of Liberation. |
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| “Emerging from this book I felt kinder toward my younger self. T Kira Madden teaches us not to shy away from hard truths, for there are rich colors found in darkness. A reminder to treat ourselves gently as we grow.” |
| —Chanel Miller, author of Know My Name |
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| “[An] exuberant, insightful, and wickedly entertaining epic about Muslim immigrants and their American-born children. A deeply moving father-and-son story unfolds against tumultuous current events in a book that anyone wanting to know how we as a nation got where we are today . . . should read.” |
| —Sigrid Nunez, author of The Friend |
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| “Concepcion puts us forcefully and unapologetically on the hook of U.S. imperial history and its role in shaping Filipino and American identity—and never lets us off.” |
| —Roberto Lovato, The New York Times Book Review |
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| “A deeply felt portrait. . . . With gimlet-eyed observation laced with darkly biting wit, Weike Wang masterfully probes the existential uncertainty of being other in America.” |
| —Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere |
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| “This is a novel as both an elegy and a love song, not only for a place, but for the souls, living and dead, who are bound to that place—what an unforgettable and perfect reading experience.” |
| —Paul Yoon, author of Run Me to Earth |
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| With lyric and narrative explorations of foodways, religion, sports, standards of beauty, social media, gun culture, and more, Another Appalachia mixes nostalgia and humor, sadness and sweetness, personal reflection and universal questions. |
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