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The Reading List A Novel [electronic resource] : by Adams, Sara Nisha.aut; cloudLibrary;
A BEST OF SUMMER READ ACCORDING TO NEWSWEEK, PARADE MAGAZINE, NBC NEWS, LITHUB, AND POPSUGAR! "The most heartfelt read of the summer...a surprising delight of a novel."--Shondaland An unforgettable and heartwarming debut about how a chance encounter with a list of library books helps forge an unlikely friendship between two very different people in a London suburb. Widower Mukesh lives a quiet life in Wembley, in West London after losing his beloved wife. He shops every Wednesday, goes to Temple, and worries about his granddaughter, Priya, who hides in her room reading while he spends his evenings watching nature documentaries. Aleisha is a bright but anxious teenager working at the local library for the summer when she discovers a crumpled-up piece of paper in the back of To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s a list of novels that she’s never heard of before. Intrigued, and a little bored with her slow job at the checkout desk, she impulsively decides to read every book on the list, one after the other. As each story gives up its magic, the books transport Aleisha from the painful realities she’s facing at home. When Mukesh arrives at the library, desperate to forge a connection with his bookworm granddaughter, Aleisha passes along the reading list…hoping that it will be a lifeline for him too. Slowly, the shared books create a connection between two lonely souls, as fiction helps them escape their grief and everyday troubles and find joy again. 
Subjects: Electronic books.; Asian American;
© 2021., HarperCollins,
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Dandelion [electronic resource] : by Liew, Jamie Chai Yun.aut; Hui, Jennifer.nrt; cloudLibrary;
When Lily was eleven years old, her mother, Swee Hua, walked away from the family, never to be seen or heard from again. Now a new mother herself, Lily becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to Swee Hua. She recalls the spring of 1987, growing up in a small British Columbia mining town where there were only a handful of Asian families; Lily’s previously stateless father wanted to blend seamlessly into Canadian life, while her mother, alienated and isolated, longed to return to Brunei. Years later, still affected by Swee Hua’s disappearance, Lily’s family is stubbornly silent to her questioning. But eventually, an old family friend provides a clue that sends Lily to Southeast Asia to find out the truth. Winner of the Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award from the Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop, Dandelion is a beautifully written and affecting novel about motherhood, family secrets, migration, isolation, and mental illness. With clarity and care, it delves into the many ways we define home, identity, and above all, belonging.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Literary; Asian American;
© 2022., ECW Press,
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The Wedding A Novel [electronic resource] : by Basran, Gurjinder.aut; cloudLibrary;
You’re invited to The Wedding, an electrifying novel about the joining of two South Asian families, and the secrets, resentments, and unspoken truths boiling just beneath the surface. Interweaving themes of identity, culture clashes, and the immigrant experience as found in The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri with the exuberance and sharp humour of Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians, Gurjinder Basran delivers a wide-ranging but intimate portrait of a vibrant, complex Sikh community. Set in Vancouver and Surrey, BC, The Wedding exposes the inner lives of the wedding party, guests and event staff, in the lead-up to a lavish wedding. This novel, centered around the impending marriage of Devi and Baby, illustrates the union of two people, two families and all the ways in which an entire community bears witness, ensnares and uplifts itself. Like all great Bollywood films, The Wedding is rife with family drama, steeped in tradition and an ode to love in all its forms. With humour, nuance and honesty, The Wedding spills the chai—exploring desire and expectation, suffering and judgment, class and race—all in search of a happy enough ever after.General adult.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Literary; Asian American;
© 2024., Douglas and McIntyre (2013) Ltd.,
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Immaculate Conception : A Novel. by Huang, Ling Ling.;
Set in the fiercely competitive art world, 'Immaculate Conception' is a novel about an obsessive friendship upended by a cutting-edge technology purported to enhance empathy and connection. From the author of 'Natural Beauty'. #diversity.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: Horror fiction.; FICTION / Asian American; FICTION / Horror; FICTION / Satire;
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Awake in the Floating City : A Novel. by Kwan, Susanna.;
'Awake in the Floating City' is a transporting debut novel about the unexpected relationship between an artist and the 130-year-old woman she cares for - two of the last people living in a flooded San Francisco of the future, the home neither is ready to leave. #diversity.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / Asian American; FICTION / Dystopian; FICTION / Literary;
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My Documents : A Novel. by Nguyen, Kevin.;
The paths of four family members diverge drastically when the U.S. government begins detaining Vietnamese-Americans, in this touching novel informed by real-life events from Japanese incarceration, the Vietnam War, and modern-day immigrant detention. #diversity.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / Asian American; FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Satire;
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The Emperor of Gladness [text (large print)] : A Novel. by Vuong, Ocean.;
'The Emperor of Gladness' follows a year in the life of a wayward young man in New England who, by chance, becomes the caretaker for an 82-year-old widow living with dementia, powering a story of friendship, loss, and how much we are willing to risk to claim one of life's most treasured mercies: a second chance. From the author of 'On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous'. #diversity.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / Asian American; FICTION / LGBTQ+ / General; FICTION / Literary;
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The Emperor of Gladness : A Novel. by Vuong, Ocean.;
'The Emperor of Gladness' follows a year in the life of a wayward young man in New England who, by chance, becomes the caretaker for an 82-year-old widow living with dementia, powering a story of friendship, loss, and how much were willing to risk to claim one of life's most treasured mercies: a second chance. From the author of 'On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous'. Goodreads Giveaway. Book Club. #diversity.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / Asian American; FICTION / LGBTQ+ / General; FICTION / Literary;
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Dandelion [electronic resource] : by Liew, Jamie Chai Yun.aut; cloudLibrary;
General adult.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Literary; Contemporary Women; Asian American;
© 2022., Arsenal Pulp Press,
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A Great Country A Novel [electronic resource] : by Gowda, Shilpi Somaya.aut; cloudLibrary;
From the New York Times bestselling author, a novel in the tradition of Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere, exploring the ties and fractures of a close-knit Indian-American family in the aftermath of a violent encounter with the police. Pacific Hills, California: Gated communities, ocean views, well-tended lawns, serene pools, and now the new home of the Shah family. For the Shah parents, who came to America twenty years earlier with little more than an education and their new marriage, this move represents the culmination of years of hard work and dreaming. For their children, born and raised in America, success is not so simple. For the most part, these differences among the five members of the Shah family are minor irritants, arguments between parents and children, older and younger siblings. But one Saturday night, the twelve-year-old son is arrested. The fallout from that event will shake each family member's perception of themselves as individuals, as community members, as Americans, and will lead each to consider: how do we define success? At what cost comes ambition? And what is our role and responsibility in the cultural mosaic of modern America? For readers of The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett and Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid, A Great Country explores themes of immigration, generational conflict, social class and privilege as it reconsiders the myth of the model minority and questions the price of the American dream.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Literary; Asian American; Family Life;
© 2024., Doubleday Canada,
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