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Bookseller Recs
Finds some of our favorite bookseller pics below! From essay collections to new fiction, find some of our favorite picks! Currently, we only cover adult fiction, nonfiction, and cookbooks; but we'll expand to covering our other sections soon!
When a broke young Asian American writer agrees to sell her youth to an aging Hollywood producer through experimental blood treatments (a la silicon valley blood boys), money, mentorship, and a dangerous power struggle follow. Super fast-paced and biting, this novel explores ambition, exploitation, and the price women pay to survive in industries built to consume them. Recommended for those who loved Yellowface and The Substance.
Set in Brownsville, Brooklyn, Livonia Chow Mein is one of those novels that makes a neighborhood feel fully alive, with all its histories, tensions, losses, and the people determined to stay. Through the story of a Chinese family-owned restaurant, it brings questions of housing, race, gentrification, memory, and Asian complicity down to the personal level in a way that feels intimate and deeply moving.
In Horse Barbie, Geena shares her incredible journey as a trans beauty queen from the Philippines and New York, navigating pageants, modeling, to activism, and more... we love celebrating trans visibility, survival, and celebration.
I find Elaine's stories incredibly fun with sharp and empathetic commentary exploring identity, gender, and culture. This collection of short stories and novella presents new characters and context with the absurdity, dark wit, shock, and humor I loved in Disorientation.
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If you love food storytelling...this books for you! I loved watching Chef Edward Lee on Culinary Class Wars Season 1, and I loved his writing in Buttermilk Graffiti...maybe even more? Mixing recipes, personal history, and stories from his travels, Edward Lee shows us how immigrants have shaped America's culinary landscape.
The title says it all. A tender coming of age memoir about growing up gay, Asian American, and working class in 1980’s Detroit centered around the author’s family’s Chinese restaurant where humor, egg rolls, and activism somehow all go hand in hand.
A Brooklyn Filipino based chef whose food we absolutely love! In the Kusina is a whole love letter to queer Filipino joy, chosen family, and the flavors Woldy grew up with. And it’s filled with personal essays and recipes that taste like home with a twist.
From doriyaki, to intergenerational friendships, grief, and more, Sweet Bean Paste is a quick read that packs a lot in its ~220 pages. I return time and time again to one of it's last passages around resilience, especially in our current challenging times.
A foundational novel in the Taiwanese queer lit canon. The terms “crocodile” and “Lazi” (the protagonist’s name) are now terms for lesbians in Taiwan, meaning Qiu is basically Taiwanese Shakespeare.
​A fierce, lyrical blend of memoir and political critique, Julian Aguon confronts U.S. empire from his home in the Pacific, Guam...a place where colonialism, militarization, racism, and climate collapse are everyday realities. Urgent and incisive, this book asks what justice looks like when survival itself is an act of resistance.