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Qian Julie Wang — Beautiful Country (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Aug 30, 2022 | RELAX: Memoir

Qian Julie Wang (王乾) crafts a poignant immigrant memoir in her 2021 book Beautiful Country. She and her parents emigrated to the New York City metro area from China. Wang discusses her early school experiences, one with a more diverse student population than others....

Naomi Hirahara — Clark and Division (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jul 22, 2022 | RELAX: Historical Fiction

Naomi Hirahara offers historical fiction and intrigue in her 2021 book Clark and Division. The time is the middle 1940s, which means that the story begins in Manzanar, one of the many World War II Japanese internment camps. As the Ito family considers leaving the camp...

The Fervor by Alma Katsu (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Apr 11, 2022 | RELAX: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi

In The Fervor Alma Katsu blends lesser-known World War II history with Japanese folklore and the horror of racism. This relatively short book introduces Meiko and her young daughter Aiko. Meiko came to Seattle as part of an arranged marriage to another Japanese...

Anne Fadiman — The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jun 11, 2021 | LEARN: Chronic Illness, RESIST: Social Justice

Author Anne Fadiman combines multiple narratives in her fabulous ethnography The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures. Most importantly, it’s both an immigration and a medical story of one Hmong...

Mia P. Manansala — Arsenic and Adobo (Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mystery #1) (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jun 5, 2021 | RELAX: Mystery-Thriller

Debut author Mia P. Manansala starts a cozy foodie AAPI mystery series with Arsenic and Adobo. Set in small town Shady Palms, main character Lila Macapagal works for her auntie, Tita Rosie. Lila left Shady Palms to attend college in nearby Chicago, but recently...

Book Review: American Yellow by George Omi

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Dec 30, 2017 | RELAX: Memoir, RESIST: Social Justice

George (Minoru) Omi’s memoir about growing up second-generation (Nisei) Japanese in 1930s and 40s America is an important story. Everyone should hear more about the tragedy of incarcerating American citizens of Japanese descent after Pearl Harbor. My mother-in-law was...

Book Review: Love and Other Consolation Prizes by Jamie Ford

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Sep 28, 2017 | RELAX: Historical Fiction

Jamie Ford’s new book Love and Other Consolation Prizes is a trip down the midway of two separate World’s Fair celebrations, in 1909 and 1962 Seattle, which both figure in the plot. Like Ford’s other books, it’s told from the viewpoint of a...

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