Recommendations by Mira Jacob
We asked Mira Jacob, author of Good Talk and The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing, to share a few of her favorite reads for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and beyond. Below are her words and recommendations.
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Add to BookshelfLatitudes of Longing
by Shubhangi Swarup
Look, any novel that starts out with a wife waking her husband over the ghost of a dead goat is going to get my vote, and this lush, lyrical book will instantly unpeel you from the rooms you’ve been stuck in.
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Where Reasons End
by Yiyun Li
It maybe impossible to explain the brilliant ache in this book, written in the months after Lee lost her son. In imagining the conversations that bridge the space between what we had and what we’ll never have again, she pushes language until it breaks and reforms into something else entirely.
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Minor Feelings
by Cathy Park Hong
It is astonishing to read a book and gasp as often as I did several months ago, reading Minor Feelings. Even more astonishing is how much more relevant it feels with every passing day.
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Marriage of a Thousand Lies
by SJ Sindu
Sri Lankan-American Lucky is gay, as is her husband, which means that they can both have the lives they want, as long as they’re willing to do it quietly, and live half-lives. If this seems like a set up for calamity and heartbreak, well, it is. But it’s terribly moving, too.
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The Woman Warrior
by Maxine Hong Kingston
I can still remember what it was like to hold and read this book for the first time, how tightly I gripped it, how much I realized might be possible for all of us who were not used to seeing ourselves in books.
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