Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The kitchen god's wife The kitchen god's wife Amy Tan Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything. And Winnie angrily determines that she must … OL15821869W
Crazy Rich Asians Crazy Rich Asians Kevin Kwan (Description comes from the 2013 Anchor Books edition) When New Yorker Rachel Chu agrees on a summer in Singapore to visit her boyfriend's "traditional" Chinese family, she expects the visit to be… OL17924837W
Problems Problems Jade Sharma "Dark, raw, and very funny, [this book] introduces us to Maya, a young woman with a smart mouth, time to kill, and a heroin hobby that isn't much fun anymore. Maya's been able to get by in New York o… OL20032812W
Chemistry Chemistry Weike Wang "A novel about a young Chinese woman whose graduate studies in chemistry go off track and lead her to discover the truths about her goals and desires"-- Three years into her graduate studies at a de… OL20054891W
The Chosen and the Beautiful The Chosen and the Beautiful Nghi Vo Nghi Vo’s stunning and subversive retelling of The Great Gatsby subtly infuses the world with magic. Jordan Baker is a queer, adopted Vietnamese American raised in America’s wealthiest social circles… OL24195205W
What becomes us What becomes us Micah Perks "Following a near fatal accident, Evie, a mild-mannered, pregnant school teacher, abandons her controlling husband and flees Santa Cruz, California for the wilds of western New York. She rents a farm… OL27015146W