Celebrate Asian & Pacific American Heritage Month with some e-selections!

May is Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month. In observance, here is a sampling of fiction and non-fiction books, all downloadable through Overdrive, compiled by our reference librarian Pam.
The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap by Gish Jen. A provocative non-fiction book by one of my favorite novelists.
ebook: https://mvlc.overdrive.com/media/2939584
audiobook: https://mvlc.overdrive.com/mvlc-visitor/content/media/3327805
World and Town by Gish Jen. A deeply thoughtful novel featuring a Chinese-American protagonist, her Cambodian refugee neighbors, and assorted native Vermonters in a small New England town.
ebook: https://minuteman.overdrive.com/minuteman-visitor/content/media/467531
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu. A funny, yet highly personal satire of bias in Hollywood by the author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe.
ebook: https://mvlc.overdrive.com/mvlc-visitor/content/media/4866911
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston. A classic (1973) memoir of a Japanese family trying to survive the internment camps of World War II.
ebook: https://mvlc.overdrive.com/mvlc-visitor/content/media/1425350
audiobook: https://mvlc.overdrive.com/mvlc-visitor/content/media/4848283
Uprooted: the Japanese-American Experience During World War II by Albert Marrin. A highly acclaimed history that sheds light on many unexplored aspects of this era.
ebook: https://mvlc.overdrive.com/media/2686173
audiobook: https://minuteman.overdrive.com/minuteman-visitor/content/media/2534231
Re Jane by Patricia Park. A humorous retelling of the Jane Eyre story told through the eyes of a Korean-American girl living in Queens, NY.
ebook: https://minuteman.overdrive.com/minuteman-visitor/content/media/1977670
audiobook: https://minuteman.overdrive.com/minuteman-visitor/content/media/2159632
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen. This novel won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. It offers a new and different perspective, filled with intrigue and suspense, on the Vietnam War.
ebook: https://mvlc.overdrive.com/mvlc-visitor/content/media/2159458
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong. A “lyrical work of self-discovery,” this novel created a sensation when it was published in 2019.
ebook: https://mvlc.overdrive.com/mvlc-visitor/content/media/4281463
audiobook: https://mvlc.overdrive.com/mvlc-visitor/content/media/4281332
The Namesake by Jumpa Lahiri. A moving novel of culture, family ties and assimilation. There’s an excellent movie version too!
ebook: https://mvlc.overdrive.com/mvlc-visitor/content/media/574553
audiobook: https://mvlc.overdrive.com/mvlc-visitor/content/media/128572
Fresh Off the Boat by Eddie Huang. An irreverent take on assimilation by a well-known “food personality,” it became a sitcom on ABC starring Constance Wu and Randall Park.
ebook: https://mvlc.overdrive.com/mvlc-visitor/content/media/1013158
audiobook: https://minuteman.overdrive.com/media/7058b7ba-6fe0-4be3-a0af-179854f80c76
Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay. A powerful coming-of-age story about grief, guilt, and the risks a Filipino-American teenager takes to uncover the truth about his cousin’s murder.
ebook: https://mvlc.overdrive.com/media/4312058
audiobook: https://mvlc.overdrive.com/media/4310971