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Real Americans by Rachel Khong – Audio ARC from Knopf, PRH Audio and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: Real Americans begins on the precipice of Y2K in New York City, when twenty-two-year-old Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a slick media company, meets...
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See – 368 pages ARC from Scribner for an honest review Book Blurb: According to Confucius, "an educated woman is a worthless woman," but Tan Yunxian—born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness—is...
The Last Rose of Shanghai by Weina Dai Randel – 429 pagesARC from Lake Union - Amazon Publishing and Netgalley for an honest reviewBook Blurb: In Japanese-occupied Shanghai, two people from different cultures are drawn together by fate and the freedom of music…1940....
Peach Blossom Spring by Melissa Fu – 400 pages ARC from Little, Brown and Company and Netgalley for an honest review Book Blurb: Peach Blossom Spring: It is 1938 in China and, as a young wife, Meilin’s future is bright. But with the Japanese army approaching, Meilin...
A Hundred Suns by Karin Tanabe – 400 pages ARC courtesy St. Martin’s in exchange for an honest review Book Blurb: On a humid afternoon in 1933, American Jessie Lesage steps off a boat from Paris and onto the shores of Vietnam. Accompanying her French husband Victor,...
Searching for Sylvie Lee by Jean Kwok – Audio Book Blurb: It begins with a mystery. Sylvie, the beautiful, brilliant, successful older daughter of the Lee family, flies to the Netherlands for one final visit with her dying grandmother—and then vanishes. Amy, the...
Some of my Historical Fiction Faves - India and Asia City of Tranquil Light Snow Flower and The Secret Fan The Japanese Lover The Last Year of the War The Island of Sea Women White Chrysanthemum Unbound Love and Other Consolation Prizes...
The Emperor Of Shoes by Spencer Wise – 336 pages Book Blurb: Alex Cohen, a twenty-six-year-old Jewish Bostonian, is living in southern China, where his father runs their family-owned shoe factory. Alex reluctantly assumes the helm of the company, but as he explores...
Unbound by John Shors - 443 pages ARC from the author Book Blurb: The year is 1548, and the Chinese Empire faces an imminent Mongol invasion. All that prevents the violent end of a dynasty is the Great Wall. Yet even this famed fortification has weaknesses, and...
Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan– Audio Book Blurb: When New Yorker Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home and quality time with the man she hopes to marry. But Nick has failed to give...