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"A passionate, no-holds-barred memoir about the Asian American experience in a nation defined by racial stratification When Julia Lee was fifteen, her hometown went up in smoke during the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The daughter of Korean immigrant store owners in a predominantly Black neighborhood, Julia was taught to be grateful for the privilege afforded to her. However, the acquittal of four white police officers in the beating of Rodney King, following the murder of Latasha Harlins by a Korean shopkeeper, forced Julia to question her racial identity and complicity. She was neither Black nor white. So who was she? This question would follow Julia for years to come, resurfacing as she traded in her tumultuous childhood for the white upper echelon of elite academia. It was only when she began a PhD in English that she found answers--not in the Bront?s or Austen, as Julia had planned, but rather in the brilliant prose of writers like James Baldwin and Toni Morrison. Their works gave Julia the vocabulary and, more important, the permission to critically examine her own tortured position as an Asian American, setting off a powerful journey of racial reckoning, atonement, and self-discovery that has shaped her adult life. With prose by turns scathing and heart-wrenching, Julia Lee lays bare the complex disorientation and shame that stems from this country's imposed racial hierarchy to argue that Asian Americans must leverage their liminality for lasting social change alongside Black and brown communities"--.

"Grace M. Cho grew up in a small, rural American town as the daughter of a white American merchant marine and the Korean bar hostess he met abroad. When Grace was fifteen, her Korean mother experienced the onset of schizophrenia, a condition that would continue for the rest of her life. Part food memoir, part sociological investigation, TASTES LIKE WAR is a hybrid text about a daughter's search through intimate and global history to understand herself and the cultural roots of her mother's condition"--Provided by publisher.

A young Korean-American woman at an elite American university is drawn into acts of domestic terrorism by a cult tied to North Korea and then disappears, leading a fellow student into an obsessive search for her.

"When Winter Kim finds out that her sister is dead and that she has a brother she never knew about, only two things matter-- finding what's left of her family and killing the man who destroyed her life. Her mission leads her from St. Louis to Los Angeles back to South Korea, where she grew up. Things get increasingly dangerous once Winter arrives in Seoul. Aided by her friends Jesse and Sebastian, Winter attempts to infiltrate an international corporation to get close to her target, a nefarious businessman named Kyung. But keeping her last remaining loved ones out of the line of fire proves difficult, and when all seems to be lost Winter must face one last devastating decision.

Jane Re--a half-Korean, half-American orphan--takes a position as an au pair for two Brooklyn academics and their daughter, but a brief sojourn in Seoul, where she reconnects with family, causes her to wonder if the man she loves is really the man for her as she tries to find balance between two cultures.

Desperate for a new life, Korean-American Jane Re is thrilled to get out of her strict Korean family by way of becoming the au pair for a wealthy Brooklyn family, which comes along with lectures on feminism, as well as the male attentions of Ed Farley. Then a family member dies in Seoul, calling a halt to Jane and Ed's growing romance. Jane struggles to learn the modern ways of Korea, and when she returns to America she realizes she has changed, maybe too much to keep up her relationship.

Regret, a young woman in early twentieth-century Korea, agrees to become a mail-order bride to a prosperous man in Hawaii for the chance at an education, but arrives to find her situation less than what she was promised, and soon joins with others like her to make her own way in her adopted city of Honolulu.

Gabriel Guttman retreats to his childhood home in southwest Montana to try and regain some of the memory he lost in a suicide attempt and to deal with the pain of his activities while a soldier in Korea.

Learning on the night of her sister's birth that a daughter has been lost in every generation of her Korean family, Janie assumes a protective role over her sister while learning more cautionary stories from her optimistic father and mythology-minded mother.

Ginger Lee moves to New York to escape her controlling mother and life in Milwaukee, but when her mother thinks Ginger needs help running her life, she shows up on Ginger's doorstep, causing a series of hilarious, and embarrassing, encounters.