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• Mansions of the Moon

  Selvadurai, Shyam, 1965-

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  Shyam Selvadurai introduces us to Siddhartha Gautama--who will later becomes the Buddha--an unusually bright and politically astute young man settling into his upper-caste life as a newlywed to Yasodhara, a woman of great intelligence and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Laughing All the Way to the Mosque

  Nawaz, Zarqa

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  "Little Mosque on the Prairie" brought Zarqa's own laugh-out-loud take on her everyday culture clash to viewers around the world. And now, in "Laughing All the Way to the Mosque", she tells the sometimes absurd, sometimes challenging,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sari, Not Sari

  a Novel

  Singh, Sonya K.

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  This debut rom-com follows the adventures of a woman trying to connect with her South Asian roots and introduces readers to a memorable cast of characters in a veritable feast of food, family traditions, and fun.

• My Mother, My Translator

  a Memoir

  Singh, Jaspreet, 1969-

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  Tracing the men and especially the women of his family from the 1918 pandemic through the calamitous events of Partition, My Mother, My Translator takes us through Singh's childhood in Kashmir and with his grandparents in Indian Punjab to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Convergence of Solitudes

  a Novel

  Anand, Anita, 1962-

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  A Convergence of Solitudes shares the lives of two families across Partition of India, Operation Babylift in Vietnam, and two referendums in Quebec.

• The Circus Train

  a Novel

  Parikh, Amita

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  Water for Elephants meets The Night Circus in this World War II debut about a magnificent travelling circus, a star-crossed romance, and one girl’s coming-of-age during the darkest of times.

• Beast at Every Threshold

  Wee, Natalie

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  Beguiling and deeply imagined, Wee’s poems explore thresholds of marginality, queerness, immigration, nationhood, and reinvention of the self through myth.

• Kamila Knows Best

  Heron, Farah

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  In the tradition of "Emma" by Jane Austen and "Clueless" comes the story of Kamila. Kamila has a pretty comfortable life and enjoys matchmaking friends, but when her nemesis comes to town with eyes on longtime family friend Rohan, it may…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Where the Silver River Ends

  Quon, Anna

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  Where the Silver River Ends delves deep into mixed-race identity, systemic oppression, family reconciliation, and what happens when we gather the courage to slip out of the current and make our own way in the world.

• We Were Dreamers

  An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story

  Liu, Simu, 1989-

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  We Were Dreamers is more than a celebrity memoir - it's a story about growing up between cultures, finding your family, and becoming the master of your own extraordinary circumstance.

• Help! I'm Alive

  a Novel

  Basran, Gurjinder,

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  An emotional story a suburban Vancouver community is left to try to make sense of a teen's death. After video footage of Jay's death is shared on social media, four people try to make sense of what happened to Jay and whether his death was…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Arsenic and Adobo

  Manansala, Mia P.

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  Manansala uses humor (and murder) to explore aspects of the Filipino diaspora, queerness, and her millennial love for pop culture. The first book in a new culinary cozy series full of sharp humor and delectable dishes--one that might just…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Library of Legends

  a Novel

  Chang, Janie, 1960-

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  When Japanese bombs start to fall over 1937 China, Nanking and her classmates are told to flee. They are entrusted with a 500-year-old collection of folklore and myth that is referred to as the Library of Legends. When one of Nanking's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Two Alone

  a Novella and Stories

  Wang, Jack, 1972-

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  A collection of stories that tell the Chinese immigrant experience in the last century, across five continents.

• How to Pronounce Knife

  Stories

  Thammavongsa, Souvankham, 1978-

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  Told with compassion and wry humour, these stories honour characters struggling to find their bearings far from home, even as they do the necessary "grunt work of the world."

• Hana Khan Carries on

  Jalaluddin, Uzma

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  A romantic comedy ... "Hana is an aspiring radio host who is working at her family's halal restaurant. With the arrival of her aunt, cousin and a rival restaurant, Hana's life is upended and family secrets are revealed. The battle to fight…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Two Trees Make a Forest

  in Search of My Family's Past Among Taiwan's Mountains and Coasts

  Lee, Jessica J., 1986-

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  After unearthing a hidden memoir of her grandfather's life, Jessica J. Lee seeks to piece together the fragments of her family's history as they moved from China to Taiwan, and then on to Canada. But as she navigates the tumultuous terrain…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Em

  Thúy, Kim

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  Through the linked destinies of a number of characters, the novel takes its inspiration from historical events, including Operation Babylift, which evacuated thousands of biracial orphans from Saigon in April 1975, and the impressive…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Seven

  Doctor, Farzana

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  CBC Books - Seven tells the story of Sharifa, who accompanies her husband on a marriage-saving trip to India to research her great-great-grandfather, a wealthy business leader and philanthropist. Sharifa's trip coincides with a time of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pachinko

  Lee, Min Jin

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  PACHINKO follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them all. Deserted by her lover, Sunja is…Read moreRead more of this annotation