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• Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City

  a Memoir

  Wong, Jane,

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  Poet Wong pens a exquisitely lyrical memoir about her working-class childhood growing up in a Chinese American restaurant on the New Jersey shore, finding confidence in her writing career, and her Asian American identity.

• Biting the Hand

  Growing Up Asian in Black and White America

  Lee, Julia, 1976-

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  The daughter of Korean immigrant store owners in a predominantly Black neighborhood in Los Angeles, Lee questioned issues of identity following the 1992 race riots. She was neither Black nor white. So who was she?

• A Living Remedy

  a Memoir

  Chung, Nicole,

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  Chung, the adopted Korean daughter of white parents, grew up in rural Oregon as one of the only Asians in her area. In her second memoir, Chung laments being unable to help her parents as their health failed. (Kirkus)

• Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls

  a Memoir

  Madden, T Kira,

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  Born out of wedlock to a white shoe mogul father and a Chinese-Hawaiian ex-model, Madden's memoir grapples with family secrets, the death of her father, and her own identity as a queer biracial writer. (Kirkus Reviews)

• Mott Street

  a Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming

  Chin, Ava,

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  As the only child of a single mother in Queens, Ava Chin learns that both sides of her family once occupied the same building on Manhattan's Mott Street, inspiring her to dive deep into her family's past. (Library Journal)

• Ma and Me

  a Memoir

  Reang, Putsata, 1974-

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  Reang grew up seeking to be the perfect Cambodian daughter and was close to her mother, a tie that frayed when Reang came out in her 20s and snapped altogether when, at age 40, she married a woman. (Library Journal)

• Oh My Mother!

  a Memoir in Nine Adventures

  Wang, Connie,

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  Connie Wang pens a memoir in essays about her relationship with her mother and their travels together, including long road trips, a Magic Mike live show in Las Vegas, and a trip to visit family in China. (Kirkus Reviews)

• Orphan Bachelors

  a Memoir : on Being a Confession Baby, Chinatown Daughter, Baa-bai Sister, Caretaker of Exotics, Literary Balloon Peddler, and Grand Historian of a Doomed American Family

  Ng, Fae Myenne, 1956-

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  Novelist Ng pens a memoir of San Francisco’s Chinatown and her family building a life in a country bent on their exclusion, including her great-grandfather, a miner who was denied citizenship by the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.

• Seeing Ghosts

  a Memoir

  Chow, Kat,

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  After her mother dies unexpectedly from cancer, Chinese American journalist Chow weaves together a story of the grief that follows her extended family as they emigrate from China and Hong Kong to Cuba and America.

• Stay True

  a Memoir

  Hsu, Hua, 1977-

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  The son of Taiwanese immigrants, Hsu grew up in the Bay Area and as a teenager befriended Ken, whose Japanese American family had been in the United States for generations. Then Ken was killed in a carjacking.

• What My Bones Know

  a Memoir of Healing From Complex Trauma

  Foo, Stephanie,

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  Foo, former radio producer of This American Life and the daughter of Malaysian immigrants, shares her story of living with complex PTSD after her mother was physically, verbally, and emotionally abusive during her childhood.