Honor the varied cultures of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, through exploring books by authors of Asian, East Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander heritage. Dive into pages of change! Enlighten minds, celebrate voices, and embrace diversity!
“When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it.”― Yo-Yo Ma
Selected Titles:
From a brilliant new voice comes an electrifying novel of a young immigrant building a life for herself — a warm, dazzling, and profound saga of queer love, friendship, work, and precarity in twenty-first century America.
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- By Sarah Thankam Mathews
- AAPI Heritage Month
A dazzling mother-daughter adventure around the world in pursuit of self-discovery, a family reckoning, and Asian American defiance.
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- By Connie Wang
- AAPI Heritage Month
From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny? An exhilarating novel of American identity that spans three generations in one family and asks: What makes us who we are? And how inevitable are our futures?
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- By Rachel Khong
- AAPI Heritage Month
When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East
Tasked with finding the reincarnation of a great lama — a spiritual teacher who may have been born anywhere in the vast Mongolian landscape — the young monk Chuluun sets out with his identical twin, Mun, who has rejected the monastic life they once shared. Their relationship will be tested on this journey through their homeland as each possesses the ability to hear the other’s thoughts.
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- By Quan Barry
- AAPI Hertitage Month
House of Many Gods is an epic and inventive story that follows Ana, a Hawaiian physician, and Nikolai, a Russian filmmaker, across decades and continents. When Nikolai comes to Kaua’i to unearth the ecological horrors that are afflicting the islands, he meets Ana and suddenly their lives become intertwined in a way neither thought possible. It is an unforgettable novel of loss and remembrance, of the search for family and identity, and ultimately, of the redemptive power of love.
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- By Quan Barry
- AAPI Heritage Month
The heartfelt memoir of a trans pageant queen from the Philippines who went back into the closet to model in New York City. But as her star rose, her sense of self eroded. She craved acceptance as her authentic self yet had to remain vigilant in order to protect her dream career. Finally, Geena realized that living her truth was the only way to step into her full power. A dazzling testimony from an icon who sits at the center of transgender history and activism, Horse Barbie is a celebratory and universal story of survival, love, and pure joy.
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- By Geena Rocero
- AAPI Heritage Month
