Fiction - Asian American

Chinksta rap is all the rage in Red Deer, Alberta. And the king of Chinksta is King Kwong, Run’s older brother. Run isn’t a fan of Kwong’s music – or personality, really. But when Kwong goes missing just days before his crowning performance and their...

Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book (Caribbean and Canadian Region)Co-winner of the Canada-Japan Literary AwardHiromi Goto’s acclaimed debut novel is a feminist examination of the Japanese Canadian immigrant experience....

While growing up in a household with a father who verbally and physically abused her and her mother. Kim Rashell Williams was forced to fend for herself. To escape the turmoil she suffered, she buried herself in books and attained a higher education....

Anna Tang doesn’t date Asian guys. Her own Chinese family is bad enough, and she's not looking to double the trouble. Besides, she's busy chasing her dream of becoming a music journalist, and she's going to march towards it single-mindedly—and single,...

When Lily was eleven years old, her mother, Swee Hua, walked away from the family, never to be seen or heard from again. Now a new mother herself, Lily becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to Swee Hua. She recalls the spring of 1987,...

I'm 18, and I've never been kissed.When my new college friends find out this (embarrassing) fact, they dare me to kiss a handsome stranger.Little did I know that he would end up wanting much more than a kiss...Dare is the first standalone book in the...

After solving her first case, Siobhan O’Brien faces her biggest challenge yet – Thanksgiving! With her lawyer boyfriend Craig in tow, Siobhan travels to Minneapolis to endure small talk with the extended O’Brien clan and chow down on some seriously...

Shortlisted for 2024 Canada ReadsLonglisted for the 2024 Carnegie Medals for Excellence through the American Library AssociationA moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vulnerable Chinese Canadian...

Disappearing Moon Cafe was a stunning debut novel that has become a Canadian literary classic. An unflinchingly honest portrait of a Chinese Canadian family that pulses with life and moral tensions, this family saga takes the reader from the...

The Da Vinci Code meets Get Shorty in this thrilling debut from M.N.Grenside.An LA screenwriter is killed shortly after completing his latest script, FALL OUT - a thriller destined to be a blockbuster but written with a secret double purpose.Echoing...

An updated and whimsical new take on what it means to be Canadian.Featuring the Journey Prize-shortlisted story, “How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun?”When asked in an interview about the Shanghai Sharks, the team that shaped his formative...

Ethan enters the Gonki province, known for its powerful Earth Augmenters. He is turned aside at the city gates by a beautiful priestess who commands a mighty earth golem. To restore the rightful ruler, he must master new elements and combine existing...

Remarkable Tales of Love and Hope, Resilience and Survival, from the Vietnam War:In the Shadow of Green Bamboos is a series of snapshots in the lives of a cross-section of people, Vietnamese and American, whose worlds were torn asunder by the Vietnam...

LOVIN’ SAFARISYNOPSISThere’s nothing like a woman who’s attractive, educated, and armed with many talents…talent’s that could knock a grown man to his knees.Safari Kennedy is an only child, born to parents who both faced untimely deaths. Unlike her...

His latest job is to catch the one that got away…three times.Filipino-American bounty hunter Domingo has made a career of catching criminal undocumented immigrants. He’s the best in the business—and it isn’t lost on him that he’s so good because of...

A Recommended Book from BookRiot, Bustle, The Millions and Teen VogueA Los Angeles Times BEST CALIFORNIA BOOK of 2020 * A New England Independent Booksellers' 2020 NEW ENGLAND BOOK AWARD FINALISTA sweeping, vibrant first novel following a family of...

Phoenixa, rising from the ashes of her ancestors, the six-and-half-year-old kite-flying, Phoenix-riding, Chinese girl embarks on a mystical journey into China’s tumultuous past searching for her Renaissance Grandpa who read to her Shan Hai Jing, The...

Not every story has a happy ending.Since her brother's death, eight-year-old Egg Murakami has been living day-to-day on the family ostrich farm near Bittercreek, discovering life to be an ever-perplexing condition. Mama Murakami has curled up inside a...

In this modern-day retelling of Pride and Prejudice, the quick-witted and contrarian Lissie Cheng must navigate societal pressures and her growing attraction to the rich and enigmatic Preston Lin.Named Booklist’s Top 10 Romance Fiction of 2024*...

A “Globe 100” Best Book of the Year (The Globe and Mail)Lambda Literary Award finalistIn the beginning, there is no he. There is no she.Two cells make up one cell. This is the mathematics behind creation. One plus one makes one. Life begets life. We...

Korean-American adoptee Siobhan O'Brien has spent much of her life explaining her name and her family to strangers, but a more pressing problem is whether to carry on the PI agency that her dead boss unexpectedly left to her. Easing into middle age,...

Rupu – the teenage daughter of Swapan & Tanima, grew up in America as a second-generation immigrant from India. The story of her growing up has always been fraught with stress due to cultural differences between the two generations – parents who are...

Quarantined. Isolated. Paranoid. TRAPPED.Stuck at home with nowhere to run, Kevin Tamura isn't holding up well under quarantine.Exhausted from overwork and lack of sleep, his sanity slips as society crumbles.But what will he do to protect himself when...

On a business trip, a high-powered fifty-six-year-old American entrepreneur visits his partners in China. After their meeting, his Asian mentor invites him to an orphanage, a trip that will change the course of his family's life forever. Without...