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Celebrating Asian and Asian American writers

A few book picks by Alice Wong
Celebrating Asian and Asian American writers

Hey, hey, it’s May and that means it’s Asian Pacific American Heritage Month! Here are a few books to check out—some were featured in my previous book giveaways and others have been published recently.

Phantompains by Therese Estacion

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo

This Is One Way to Dance: Essays by Sejal Shah

Making the Tongue Dry by Jen Soriano (and be on the lookout for Nervous, a lyric essay collection forthcoming from Amistad/HarperCollins in 2023)

Goodbye, Again: Essays, Reflections, and Illustrations by Jonny Sun

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esmé Weijun Wang

The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice by Kristina Wong (and a recent Pulitzer Prize finalist for Drama)

Book cover for Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life with a marigold yellow background. On the right side is an illustration of a crouching tiger in red in the style of Chinese paper cuttings with delicate cutouts in various shapes giving form and definition to the tiger. The tiger has a fierce expression, eyes and jaws wide open, teeth bared. The tiger has large paws with four claws extended. On the left in black large text YEAR OF THE TIGER at the top and ALICE WONG below. In the center in smaller red text AN ACTIVIST’S LIFE and in the lower right corner EDITOR OF DISABILITY VISIBILITY. Small, delicate red flowers are sprinkled throughout. Book cover by Madeline Partner.
Book cover for Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life with a marigold yellow background. On the right side is an illustration of a crouching tiger in red in the style of Chinese paper cuttings with delicate cutouts in various shapes giving form and definition to the tiger. The tiger has a fierce expression, eyes and jaws wide open, teeth bared. The tiger has large paws with four claws extended. On the left in black large text YEAR OF THE TIGER at the top and ALICE WONG below. In the center in smaller red text AN ACTIVIST’S LIFE and in the lower right corner EDITOR OF DISABILITY VISIBILITY. Small, delicate red flowers are sprinkled throughout. Book cover by Madeline Partner.

There’s also my memoir, Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life available for pre-order now (September 6, 2022). I had a fun time talking with Stephanie Sendaula (and read this great piece by Stephanie about houseplants, Black Joy and queer resistance) about writing and living in this effin’ pandemic in Culture Study, a newsletter by Anne Helen Petersen.

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