Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo- 368 pages Book Blurb: Though ruled by British overlords, the Chinese of colonial Malaya still cling to ancient customs. And in the sleepy port town of Malacca, ghosts and superstitions abound. Li Lan, the daughter of a genteel but bankrupt...
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The Buddha In The Attic
The Buddha In The Attic by Julie Otsuka - 129 pages Book Blurb: In eight incantatory sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces the picture brides’ extraordinary lives, from their arduous journey by boat, where they exchange photographs of their husbands, imagining...
Girl In Translation by Jean Kwok
Girl In Translation by Jean Kwok -304 pages Book Blurb: When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings....
The Rent Collector by Camron Wright
The Rent Collector by Camron Wright -304 pages Book Blurb: Survival for Ki Lim and Sang Ly is a daily battle at Stung Meanchey, the largest municipal waste dump in all of Cambodia. They make their living scavenging recyclables from the trash. Life would be hard enough...
The Art Of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker
The Art Of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan - Philipp Sendker - 336 pages Book Blurb: A poignant and inspirational love story set in Burma, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats spans the decades between the 1950s and the present. When a successful New York lawyer suddenly...
The Housekeeper And The Professor
The Housekeeper And The Professor by Yoko Ogawa (Stephen Snyder translator) - 180 pages Book Blurb: He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem--ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. She is an...
Dreams Of Joy (Shanghai Girls #2) by Lisa See
Dreams Of Joy (Shanghai Girls #2) by Lisa See - 354 pages Book Blurb: Lisa See has brilliantly illuminated the potent bonds of mother love, romantic love, and love of country. Now, in her most powerful novel yet, she returns to these timeless themes, continuing the...
City of Tranquil Light by Bo Caldwell
City of Tranquil Light by Bo Caldwell - 287 pages Book Blurb: Will Kiehn is seemingly destined for life as a humble farmer in the Midwest when, having felt a call from God, he travels to the vast North China Plain in the early twentieth-century. There he is surprised...
The Samurai’s Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama - 211 pages Book Blurb: A 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen is sent to his family's summer home in a Japanese coastal village to recover from a bout with tuberculosis. Here he is cared for by Matsu, a reticent housekeeper...