Books for When...It's Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month!

Library clerk Michelle Sadamori spent last week compiling a book display and reading list to celebrate Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month. Check these books of poetry and prose out at the TVCC Library!

Novels

            

Red Earth and Pouring Rain, Vikram Chandra FIC C3618r
The Vine of Desire, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni FIC D641v
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford FIC F753h
Songs of Willow Frost, Jamie Ford FIC F753so
Waiting, Ha Jin FIC J5647w
Sharmila’s Book, Bharti Kirchner FIC K633sh
Crazy Rich Asians, Kevin Kwan FIC K9792c
The Lowland, Jhumpa Lahiri FIC L1394l
The Surrendered, Chang-rae Lee FIC L5106su
Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng FIC N4991ev & AU N4991ev
The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen FIC N4998sy
This One Summer, Jillian Tamaki & Mariko Tamaki FIC T15t
The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan FIC T1532j
Chemistry, Weike Wang FIC W1848c

I Hotel, Karen Tei Yamashita FIC Y147ih
A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara FIC Y15l
How To Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, Charles Yu FIC Y901h

Memoirs

            

Falling Leaves, Adeline Yen Mah 305.48 M2772f
When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi 616.99424 K1242w
Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir, Amy Tan 813.54 T1532w 

Farewell to Manzanar, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston, 940.547 H8184f
Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family, Lauren Kessler       940.547 K485st
The Kikuchi Diary: Chronicle from an American Concentration Camp, Charles Kikuchi 940.547 K55k
The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir, Thi Bui 973.0495 B8689n

Poetry

            

When I Grow Up I Want To Be a List of Further Possibilities, Chen Chen 811 C42042w
Drawing the Line, Lawson Fusao Inada 811.54 In18d
E-mails from Scheherazad, Mohja Kahf 811.6 K12em
Invocation to Daughters, Barbara Jane Reyes, 811.6 R3306in
Ignatz, Monica Youn 811.6 Y839ig

Nonfiction

            

Curry: Reading, Eating, and Race, Naben Ruthnum 305.8914 R934c
NiseiSansei: Shifting Japanese American Identities and Politics, Jere Takahashi 305.895 T1393n
The Japanese American Community: A Three-Generation Study, Colbert Rhodes and Gene N. Levine 305.895 L5786j
Asian America: Chinese and Japanese in the United States Since 1850, Roger Daniels 308.895 D2285as 

America's Concentration Camps, Alan R. Bosworth 940.547 B6576am
The Decision to Relocate the Japanese Americans, Roger Daniels 940.547 D2285d 

The Chinese American Family Album, Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler 973 H76c

The Japanese American Family Album, Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler 973 H76ja
East to America: A History of the Japanese in the United States, Robert A. Wilson & Bill Hosokawa 973.049 W6973ea 

Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans, Ronald Takaki 973.0495 T1394st
A New Significance: Re-envisioning the History of the American West, Clyde A. Milner II 978 N42063n

Films

            

Tying the Knot 306.848 T97t
Maya Lin, A Strong Clear Vision 727.3092 M4518m
The Journey of the Bonesetter's Daughter 782.1 J8268j
Honor & Sacrifice: The Roy Matsumoto Story 940.542 H759h
Proof of Loyalty: Kazuo Yamane and the Nisei Soldiers of Hawaii 940.547 P9451p
Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbol 940.547 F961f
Home from the Eastern Sea: The Story of Asian Pacific Americans in Washington State 979.7 H7523h