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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"A hilarious debut novel about a wealthy but fractured Chinese immigrant family that had it all, only to lose every last cent--and about the road trip they take across America that binds them back together. Charles Wang is mad at America. A brash, lovable immigrant businessman who built a cosmetics empire and made a fortune, he's just been ruined by the financial crisis. Now all Charles wants is to get his kids safely stowed away so that he can go...
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English
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"In Ghost Forest, the unnamed narrator is the eldest of two daughters who grew up in Vancouver with her mother, away from her father in China, who's now sick. She's twenty-four and realizing she has never told her father that she loves him. The stories and experiences that unfold through his subsequent death and memorialization are lessons and curiosities of intimacy and affection. They are real, raw, and poignant meditations on how life and love...
3) Front desk
Author
Series
Front desk volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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"Mia Tang has a lot of secrets. Number 1: She lives in a motel, not a big house. Every day, while her immigrant parents clean the rooms, ten-year-old Mia manages the front desk of the Calivista Motel and tends to its guests. Number 2: Her parents hide immigrants. And if the mean motel owner, Mr. Yao, finds out they've been letting them stay in the empty rooms for free, the Tangs will be doomed. Number 3: She wants to be a writer. But how can she when...
4) Throwback
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Back to the Future meets The Joy Luck Club in this YA contemporary romance about a Korean American girl sent back to the '90s to (reluctantly) help her teenage mom win Homecoming Queen. Being a first-generation Asian American immigrant is hard. You knowwhat's harder? Being the daughter of one. Samantha Kang has never gotten along with her mother, Priscilla-and has never understood her bougie-nightmare, John Hughes high school expectations. After...
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Publisher
Interlink Books, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Incorporated
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"An account of an immigrant family's struggle and the lessons learned about diversity Writing at the height of her powers, The Bad Immigrant cements Sefi Atta's place as one of the best storytellers of our time. Through the voice of her first male protagonist, Lukmon, Atta peels away nuanced layers to expose the realities of migration from Nigeria to the USA, such as the strains of adjustment and the stifling pressure to conform without loss of identity....
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English
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"An immigrant family gets caught in the middle of a criminal investigation in this pulsating debut, perfect for readers of Everything I Never Told You and Ask Again, Yes"--
"Babur “Bobby” Singh, single parent and owner of fledging Uber business “Move with Bobby,” remains ever hopeful about ascending the ladder of American success. He lives in an affluent suburb of New York with his daughter Angie, an introverted teenager who is uncomfortable...
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Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Drawn from Kao Kalia Yang's childhood experiences as a Hmong refugee, this heartfelt picture book offers a window into the life of a family with little money and a great deal of love"--
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Glory Akindele returns to London from her seemingly glamorous life in LA to mourn the sudden death of her father, only to find her previously close family has fallen apart in her absence. Her brother, Victor, is in jail and won't speak to her because she didn't come home for his trial. Her older sister, Faith, once a busy career woman, appears to have lost her independence and ambition, and is instead channeling her energies into holding together...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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AANHPI Heritage Month - Adult Fiction
Arab American Heritage Month
Read-Alikes for Transcendent Kingdom
Arab American Heritage Month
Read-Alikes for Transcendent Kingdom
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Passionate, disturbing, unputdownable -- Salman Rushdie A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, at its heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home. Ayad Akhtar forges a new narrative...
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
“Sofija Stefanovics beautiful memoir Miss Ex-Yugoslavia depicts the elegant transit of a girl becoming an artist. This is a story we yearn to know: How does a girl lose her childhood, family, and nation, yet nurture her memories, dreams, and art? Stefanovic hits all her marks, and she keeps us in her thrall.” Min Jin Lee, author of Pachinko, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist “Funny and tragic and beautiful in all the...
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Series
Vega family love stories volume 1
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"Kamilah, a Puerto Rican chef, and Liam, an Irish American whiskey distiller, are blackmailed by their grandfathers, best friends since boyhood, into getting married or risk losing the building that houses both their businesses"--
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"The story of two refugee families and their hope and resilience as they fight to survive and belong in America The welcoming and acceptance of immigrants and refugees has been central to America's identity for centuries--yet America has periodically turned its back at the times of greatest humanitarian need. After the Last Border is an intimate look at the lives of two women as they struggle for the twenty-first century American dream, having won...
17) Dheepan
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A Sri Lankan Tamil warrior flees to France and ends up working as a caretaker of a housing block outside Paris in a crime-ridden neighborhood.
Author
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Una novela profundamente personal sobre la identidad y la pertenencia en una naciAn que se desmorona por completo, y que combina hechos reales y ficciAn para contar una historia Acpica de pertenencia y desposesiAn en el mundo que se creA tras el 11 de septiembre. En parte drama familiar, en parte sAtira, en parte picaresca, esta es la historia de un padre y un hijo, y el paA-s al que llaman hogar. Desde las ciudades del corazAn de Estados Unidos hasta...
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English
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Barnes & Noble Book Club
Read with Jenna
Read-Alikes for Transcendent Kingdom
Women's Prize for Fiction
Read with Jenna
Read-Alikes for Transcendent Kingdom
Women's Prize for Fiction
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Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after an ankle injury left him hooked on OxyContin. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all...
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