New Asian-American Titles - Winter 2022
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Clark and Division
by Naomi Hirahara

Released from a Japanese internment camp in 1944, Aki Ito moves to Chicago to be with her sister, Rose, only to lose her in subway train accident on the event of their reunion and vows to learn what really happened.
Tell me how to be
by Neel Patel

While packing up the family home, widow Renu embarks on an emotional affair with the man she almost married while her son slips back into old habits, forcing both of them to choose between the lives they left behind and the ones they’ve since created. 75,000 first printing.
Four aunties and a wedding
by Jesse Q. Sutanto

Determined that her family enjoy her wedding festivities as guests, Meddy Chan hires a Chinese-Indonesian family-run party vendor because they are similar to her own, but discovers they are the mafia in the sequel to Dial A for Aunties. Simultaneous.
Pyre
by Perumāòlmurukaön

"Saroja and Kumaresan are young and in love. After meeting in a small southern Indian town where Kumaresan works at a soda bottling shop, they quickly marry before returning to Kumaresan's family village, where they hope to build a happy life together. But they are harboring a terrible secret: Saroja is from a different caste than Kumaresan, and if the villagers find out, they will both be in grave danger"
Beautiful country : a memoir
by Qian Julie Wang

This memoir from a Chinese woman who arrived in New York City at age 7 examines how her family lived in poverty out of fear of being discovered as undocumented immigrants and how she was able to find success.
Intimacies
by Katie M. Kitamura

Seeking a fresh start an interpreter takes a position at the International Court at The Hague and is drawn into numerous personal dramas, including her lover’s ongoing entanglement in his marriage and her friend witnessing a random act of violence.
Love in the big city : a novel
by Sang Young Park

When his female best friend and roommate, Jaehee, leaves him to settle down, Young, a cynical gay man living in the lonely city of Seoul, tries to make sense of his life and his relationships as he finds himself torn between two very different men.
The family Chao : a novel
by Lan Samantha Chang

When Big Leo, the owner of Fine Chao restaurant is found dead—presumed murdered—his three sons are reunited and fall under suspicion of the town and police, and must reckon with the legacy of their father’s outsized appetites and own future survival.
The Silence of Scheherazade
by Defne Suman

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