Asian American Fiction 2007
Explore the best Asian American fiction books of 2007 with our curated list. Discover acclaimed novels, compelling stories, and must-read works by talented Asian American authors.
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Free Food for Millionaires
by Min Jin Lee
"Goodbye, Columbus meets the novels of Amy Tan in this American story of class, society and identity that marks the debut of a new voice …
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Happy Birthday or Whatever
by Annie Choi
Meet Annie Choi. She fears cable cars and refuses to eat anything that casts a shadow. Her brother thinks chicken is a vegetable. Her father …
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Transparency
by Frances Hwang
With a deceptively simple yet graceful style, and in the tradition of Lara Vapnyar, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Gish Jen, Frances Hwang captures the thousand minor …
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Peony in Love
by Lisa See
“I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret.” For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she …
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Lost Men
by Brian Leung
After two decades of estrangement that followed the death of his Caucasian mother, Westen Chan joins his father, Xin, on an emotionally charged trip to …
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The Queens of K-Town
by Angela Mi Young Hur
Twenty-six-year-old Cora Moon comes back to Manhattan's Koreatown after an absence of ten years. The vision of a girl standing on the edge of a …
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The Bone Garden
by Tess Gerritsen
Julia Hamill is pulled into a nineteenth-century mystery when she discovers a human skull bearing the signs of a violent death in her backyard.
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Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures
by Vincent Lam
Following four young medical students and physicians, this debut collection of 12 interwoven short stories from 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize-winner Lam is a riveting, eye-opening …
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A Free Life
by Ha Jin
"From Ha Jin, the widely acclaimed, award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash, comes a novel that takes his fiction to a new setting: 1990s …