Joel de la Fuente
Author
Language
English
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Asian in America
Books You May Have Missed 2022: Combined
Read-Alikes for Interior Chinatown
Read-Alikes for Same Bed, Different Dreams
Books You May Have Missed 2022: Combined
Read-Alikes for Interior Chinatown
Read-Alikes for Same Bed, Different Dreams
Description
"From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play."--
Willis Wu doesn't perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: He's merely Generic Asian man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but he is always relegated to a prop. Yet every...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
Read-Alikes for A Dangerous Business
Read-Alikes for Land of Milk and Honey
Read-Alikes for A Dangerous Business
Read-Alikes for Land of Milk and Honey
Description
Ba dies in the night; Ma is already gone. Newly orphaned children of immigrants, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats of their western mining town, they set off to bury their father in the only way that will set them free from their past. Along the way, they encounter giant buffalo bones, tiger paw prints, and the specters of a ravaged landscape as well as family secrets, sibling rivalry, and...
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