"Like many six-year-olds, Mira Jacob's half-Jewish, half-Indian son, Z, has questions about everything. At first they are innocuous enough, but as tensions from the 2016 election spread from the media into his own family, they become much, much more complicated. Trying to answer him honestly, Mira has to think back to where she's gotten her own answers: her most formative conversations about race, color, sexuality, and, of course, love. Written with...

"Nimrods is an experimental memoir of fatherhood across two generations, refracted through the lens of immigration, racism, and colonialism. Kawika Guillermo chronicles his difficult relationship to his white alcoholic religious father, the travails of growing up a mixed-race Filipinx punk rock kid, and his ambivalence about his own new fatherhood. Asian American literature has often focused on the relationship between mothers and daughters; Guillermo...

Traces the author's journey from the painful deprivations of her homeland to the sudden bounty of the United States, where she endured five jobs, crime, and a painful marriage before the birth of a daughter inspired her writing career.