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AAPI Heritage Month May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month!

CELEBRATE THE CULTURAL AND HISTORIC CONTRIBUTIONS MADE BY ASIAN AMERICANS AND PACIFIC ISLANDERS WITH THESE TITLES AND MORE!

INTERIOR CHINATOWN

by Charles Yu

This deeply personal novel by Charles Yu explores numerous themes, including race, immigration, pop culture, and assimilation. Winner of the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction, Yu's novel humorously examines the role of Asian actors in Hollywood productions and the effect on wider culture.

WHEREABOUTS

by Jhumpa Lahiri

Pulitzer Prize winning author Jhumpa Lahriri explores themes of attachment and estrangement in this novel set in an unnamed Italian city. "The woman at the center wavers between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties... This is Jhumpa Lahiri's first novel she wrote in Italian and translated into English. It brims with the impulse to cross barriers. By grafting herself onto a new literary language, Lahiri has pushed herself to a new level of artistic achievement" - Provided by publisher

A PLACE FOR US

by Fatima Farheen Mirza

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD “5 UNDER 35” NOMINEE

National Book Award "5 Under 25" nominee Fatima Farheen Mirza's 2018 story of family identity and belonging follows an Indian family through the marriage of their daughter, from the parents' arrival in the United States to the return of their estranged son. Searching between two different cultures, this family-focused novel is deeply resonant and powerfully moving.

FIONA AND JANE

by Jean Chen Ho

This 2022 release is Jean Chen Ho's debut novel named in Vulture's Best Books of the Year (So Far). "A witty, warm, and irreverent book that traces the lives of two young Taiwanese American women as they navigate friendship, sexuality, identity, and heartbreak over two decades" - Provided by publisher

THIS IS PARADISE

by Kristiana Kahakauwila

This 2013 debut story collection by Kristiana Kahakauwila Danger features six stories all set in Hawai'i. "Intimately tied to the Hawaiian Islands, This is Paradise explores the relationships among native Hawaiians, local citizens, and emigrants from (and to) the contiguous forty-eight states... Kahakauwila is a careful observer of her protagonists' actions - and, sometimes, their inaction. Her portrayal of people whose lives have lost their centre of gravity is acute, often heartbreaking, and suffused with a deeply felt empathy. With a contemporary edginess, a mature style, and a sense of history reverberating into the present, This is Paradise is an incredible debut" - Provided by publisher

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