Austin Ku
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Language
English
Description
"Set in New York and China over three decades, Paper Names explores what it means to be American from three different perspectives. There's Tony, a Chinese-born engineer turned Manhattan doorman, who immigrated to the United States to give his family a better life. His daughter, Tammy, who we meet at age nine and follow through adulthood, and who grapples with the expectations of a first generation American and her own personal desires. Finally, there's...
Author
Publisher
Tiny Reparations Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"Ocean's Eleven meets The Farewell in Portrait of a Thief, a lush, lyrical heist novel inspired by the true story of Chinese art vanishing from Western museums, about diaspora, the colonization of art, and the complexity of the Chinese American identity. History is told by the conquerors. Across the Western world, museums display the spoils of war, of conquest, of colonialism: priceless pieces of art looted from other countries, kept even now. Will...
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Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Starting a film club at school, Felix Ma asks Cassie Chow, a bubbly high school senior who shares his anxieties about the future and parental expectations, to star in his short film, but his lighthearted mockumentary unexpectedly uncovers their most painful memories.
4) Thrust
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From the visionary author of The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children, an epic novel tracing the conception and construction of a colossal statue--and the lives of two centuries of immigrants navigating its turbulent wake. "Lidia Yuknavitch is a writer who, with each ever more triumphant book, creates a new language with which she writes the audacious stories only she can tell," Roxane Gay has written. Now, Yuknavitch bridges the nineteenth...