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• The Verifiers

  Pek, Jane,

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  "Introducing Claudia Lin: a sharp-witted amateur sleuth for the 21st century. This debut novel follows Claudia as she verifies people’s online lives, and lies, for a dating detective agency in New York City. Until a client with an unusual request…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Interior Chinatown

  Yu, Charles, 1976-

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  “Meticulously crafted. . . . Yu tells us about ourselves with his haunting depictions of the immigrant experience, familial relationships, and the abiding desire to break from the pressures of conformity and live an authentic life.” —Los Angeles…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Holding Pattern

  a Novel

  Xie, Jenny,

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  "Kathleen Cheng has blown up her life. She’s gone through a breakup, dropped out of her graduate program, and left everything behind. Now she’s back in her childhood home in Oakland, wondering what’s next. To her surprise, her mother isn’t the same…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Natural Beauty

  a Novel

  Huang, Ling Ling, 1989-

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  “Her talents…harmonize most seamlessly when she writes about music, managing the near-impossible feat of crafting descriptions of the compositions that are as airy and adroit as the melodies themselves. And she is at her best when she skewers the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Land of Milk and Honey

  Zhang, C Pam,

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  Haunting. . .[Foodies] will find Land of Milk and Honey a gourmand’s dream. . .tense, unnerving and creepy. . .an extremely atmospheric novel about the interplay of environmental destruction and class. The bittersweet aftertaste will leave you…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Her Radiant Curse

  Lim, Elizabeth,

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  “Her Radiant Curse glows from start to finish. An origin story that stuns even knowing how it will end, bringing new beauty and darkness alike to Raikama’s tale. Elizabeth Lim’s writing is a marvel.” —Chloe Gong, #1 New York Times bestselling author…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Forbidden City

  a Novel

  Hua, Vanessa,

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  "Mei, a teenage girl living in 1960s China becomes Mao Zedong’s protégée and lover — and a heroine of the Cultural Revolution — in Forbidden City, an epic yet intimate portrayal of one of the world’s most powerful and least understood leaders during…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Half a Lifelong Romance

  Zhang, Ailing,

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  “The most mature and fully achieved novel by midcentury writer Eileen Chang, whose work was beloved by readers in Hong Kong and Taiwan, yet banned in mainland China until the 1990s. . . . A small masterpiece of understatement and indirection. It has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Portrait of a Thief

  a Novel

  Li, Grace D.,

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  "A senior at Harvard, Will fits comfortably in his carefully curated roles: A perfect student, an art history major, and eldest son who has always been his parents’ American Dream. But when a mysterious Chinese benefactor reaches out with an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Society of Lies

  a Novel

  Brown, Lauren Ling,

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  “A dark and haunting debut that explores secret societies, the bonds of sisterhood, and the intricacies of privilege at an elite college . . . When Maya searches for answers about the death of her younger sister at their shared school, she must…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Joy Luck Club

  Tan, Amy,

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  “You see the lives of these women, and you think about all the women who came before you. . . . It’s among the canon of Asian American stories that are feminist and that are true to our being.”—Margaret Cho

• Central Places

  a Novel

  Cai, Delia,

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  "A young woman’s past and present collide when she brings her white fiancé home to meet her Chinese immigrant parents in this vibrant debut from an exciting new voice in fiction."- Penguin Random House

• Red Sorghum

  a Novel of China

  Mo, Yan, 1955-

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  “Through a mixture of fantasy and reality, historical and social perspectives, Mo Yan has created a world reminiscent in its complexity of those in the writings of William Faulkner and Gabriel García Márquez, at the same time finding a departure…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rental House

  Wang, Weike,

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  "From the award-winning author of Chemistry, a sharp-witted, insightful novel about a marriage as seen through the lens of two family vacations. Told in wry, gimlet-eyed prose, Rental House is a concentrated gem of a novel about the seen and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Kaleidoscope

  a Novel

  Wong, Cecily,

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  “Sparkling with sharp observations and deeply wise in its insights, Kaleidoscope is a moving portrayal of the tangled knot of sisterhood and the dizzying spiral of grief. Cecily Wong’s dazzling second novel deftly explores the complex push-pull of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Map for the Missing

  Tang, Belinda Huijuan,

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  “[A] far-reaching and impactful debut novel . . . Tang’s vibrant, stirring descriptions of Communist China during the Cultural Revolution and its aftermath . . . grip, transport and beguile. . . . The sections involving Yitian’s complicated family…Read moreRead more of this annotation