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Song of the Exile
By: Kiana Davenport
Narrated by: Cristine McMurdo-Wallis
Length: 16 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
This beautiful and haunting novel bares the soul of a Hawaiian-American family during World War II. As you share in the Meahuna family's misfortunes and triumphs, a sense of intense intimacy evolves. Cristine McMurdo-Wallis lets you savor the family members' remarkable, heartwrenching stories as they are revealed piece by piece in language rich... Read more
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Confessions
By: Kanae Minato
Narrated by: Elaina Erika Davis & Noah Galvin
Length: 6 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Her pupils murdered her daughter. Now she will have her revenge.
After calling off her engagement in the wake of a tragic revelation, Yuko Moriguchi had nothing to live for except her only child, four-year-old child, Manami. Now, following an accident on the grounds of the middle school where she teaches, Yuko has given up and tendered her... Read more
Death Money
By: Henry Chang
Narrated by: Feodor Chin
Length: 6 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
His Fifth Precinct cases have taken him to West Coast Chinatowns and back, and along the way NYPD detective Jack Yu has processed a dozen dead bodies, been beaten by Triad thugs, been mauled by a pit bull, and been shot twice.He's also killed two men.He is en route to an appointment with the department shrink when an Asian body turns up in the... Read more
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Crazy Rich Asians
By: Kevin Kwan
Narrated by: Lynn Chen
Length: 13 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
A hilarious and heartwarming New York Times bestselling novel—the basis for the acclaimed major motion picture!
"There's rich, there's filthy rich, and then there's crazy rich ... A Pride and Prejudice-like send-up about an heir bringing his Chinese-American girlfriend home to meet his ancestor-obsessed family.” –PEOPLE
When New Yorker Rachel Chu... Read more
The Third Son
By: Julie Wu
Narrated by: David Shih
Length: 10 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
It’s 1943 as air-raid sirens blare in Japanese-occupied Taiwan, eight-year-old Saburo is in no hurry to go home to the abuse he suffers at the hands of his parents and older brother. In the peach forests of Taoyuan, he encounters Yoshiko, whose loving family is like a glimpse of paradise for him. Their brief meeting is a memory he cherishes from... Read more
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Games without Rules
By: Tamim Ansary
Narrated by: Tamim Ansary
Length: 14 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism. That war is real, but it sits atop an older struggle between Kabul and the countryside, between order and chaos, between a modernist impulse to join the world and the pull of an older Afghanistan—a tribal universe of village republics... Read more
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In the Shadow of the Banyan
By: Vaddey Ratner
Narrated by: Greta Lee
Length: 13 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
A beautiful celebration of the power of hope, this New York Times bestselling novel tells the story of a girl who comes of age during the Cambodian genocide.
You are about to read an extraordinary story, a PEN Hemingway Award finalist “rich with history, mythology, folklore, language and emotion.” It will take you to the very depths of despair... Read more
Silver Like Dust
By: Kimi Cunningham Grant
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
The poignant story of a Japanese American woman's journey through one of the most shameful chapters in American history.Sipping tea by the fire, preparing sushi for the family, or indulgently listening to her husband tell the same story for the hundredth time, Kimi Grant's grandmother, Obaachan, was a missing link to Kimi's Japanese heritage,... Read more
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American Dervish
By: Ayad Akhtar
Narrated by: Ayad Akhtar
Length: 9 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
From Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar, a stirring and explosive debut novel about an American Muslim family in Wisconsin struggling with faith and belonging in the pre-9/11 world.
Hayat Shah is a young American in love for the first time. His normal life of school, baseball, and video games had previously been distinguished only by his Pakistani... Read more
Girl in Translation
By: Jean Kwok
Narrated by: Grayce Wey
Length: 9 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of Searching for Sylvie Lee, the iconic, New York Times-bestselling debut novel that introduced an important Chinese-American voice with an inspiring story of an immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two futures.
When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a... Read more
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
By: Jamie Ford
Narrated by: Feodor Chin
Length: 10 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An impressive, bitter, and sweet debut that explores the age-old conflicts between father and son, the beauty and sadness of what happened to Japanese Americans in the Seattle era during World War II, and the depths and longing of deep-heart love.”—Lisa See
In 1986, Henry Lee joins a crowd outside the Panama Hotel,... Read more
A Free Life
By: Ha Jin
Narrated by: Jaeson Ma
Length: 21 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Meet the Wu family—father Nan, mother Pingping, and son Taotao. They are arranging to fully sever ties with China in the aftermath of the 1989 massacre at Tiananmen Square, and to begin a new, free life in the United States. At first, their future seems well-assured. But after the fallout from Tiananmen, Nan's disillusionment turns him toward... Read more
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The Street of a Thousand Blossoms
By: Gail Tsukiyama
Narrated by: Stephen Park
Length: 14 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Gail Tsukiyama's The Street of a Thousand Blossoms is a powerfully moving masterpiece about tradition and change, loss and renewal, and love and family from a glorious storyteller at the height of her powers.
It is Tokyo in 1939. On the Street of a Thousand Blossoms, two orphaned brothers dream of a future firmly rooted in tradition. The older... Read more
Born Confused
By: Tanuja Desai Hidier
Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
Length: 14 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Dimple Lala doesn't know what to think. Her parents are from India, and she's spent her whole life resisting their traditions. Then suddenly she gets to high school and everything Indian is trendy. Now things are more complicated than ever. At seventeen, she's still recovering from a year-old break up and her best friend isn't around the way she... Read more
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A Long Stay in a Distant Land
By: Chieh Chieng
Narrated by: James Yaegashi
Length: 6 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
In this funny and inventive novel, the Lums are a death-stalked Chinese American family living in Orange County, California. Ever since Grandpa Melvin was inspired to join the US Army after watching a Popeye movie and—as family lore has it—unleashed a “relentless rain of steel death” upon the Nazis, Lum after Lum has been doomed to an untimely... Read more
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The Golden Mountain
By: Irene Kai
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
A journey back in time, The Golden Mountain is the gripping story of four generations of Chinese women who live and die under the restrictions of their culture—except for one, the author. Her story tells of growing up in Hong Kong and of her transition to New York City, where she struggled to meld the American dream with her ethnic background.... Read more
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When the Emperor Was Divine
By: Julie Otsuka
Narrated by: Elaina Erika Davis
Length: 3 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Julie Otsuka’s commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any we have ever seen. With crystalline intensity and precision, Otsuka uses a single family to evoke the deracination—both physical and emotional—of a generation of Japanese Americans. In five chapters, each flawlessly executed from a different point... Read more
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