Jonny Sun is back with a collection of essays and other writings in his unique, funny, and heartfelt style. The pieces range from long meditations […]
Tag: Non-fiction
Every Day Is a Gift: A Memoir by Tammy Duckworth
In Every Day Is a Gift, Tammy Duckworth takes readers through the amazing—and amazingly true—stories from her incomparable life. In November of 2004, an Iraqi […]
From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement by Paula Yoo
America in 1982: Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting U.S. autoworkers out of their jobs. Anti–Asian American sentiment simmers, […]
Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir by Elizabeth Miki Brina
A searing, deeply candid memoir about a young woman’s journey to understanding her complicated parents–her mother an Okinawan war bride, her father a Vietnam veteran–and […]
Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir by Kat Chow
Born two years after her parents’ only son died just hours after his birth, Kat Chow became unusually fixated with death. She worried constantly about […]
Finding Junie Kim by Ellen Oh
A story of family, hope, and survival, inspired by the author’s mother’s real-life experiences during the Korean War. Faced with middle school racism, Junie Kim […]
Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala
On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young […]
Everything Sad Is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri
At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls “Daniel”) stands, trying to tell a story. His […]
Of Color by Jaswinder Bolina
In his debut essay collection, award-winning poet Jaswinder Bolina meditates on “how race,” as he puts it, “becomes metaphysical” the cumulative toll of the microaggressions […]
Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong
In her hit Netflix comedy special Baby Cobra, an eight-month pregnant Ali Wong resonated so heavily that she became a popular Halloween costume. Wong told […]