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'An understated masterpiece' San Francisco Chronicle'Her wisdom is staggeringly beautiful, implicating each of us' Irish TimesAfter the First World War, a group of young women is brought by boat from Japan to San Francisco. They are picture brides,...

A Reese Witherspoon YA Book Club Pick!A New York Times bestselling novel, The Downstairs Girl is a compelling and poignant story following seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan, a Chinese American girl living in segregated 1890s Atlanta.'Everyone needs to read this...

'A young woman's battle for acceptance in a male-dominated world; her misadventures in love; and her torturous journey to track down her real parents in Germany' Mail on Sunday Best New FictionFrom childhood, Katherine knows she is different, and that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936932160Author Yz CHinFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735056609Author Ana HuangFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Boba PressPublisher Boba PressWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 17mm

Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction A Guardian, Nylon, Buzzfeed, Cosmopolitan, Vulture and Shelf Awareness Book of the Year 2017 'Relegate anything else you're reading - there is no other book to be seen with now' The Times ...

By the New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning AFTERPARTIES comes a collection like none other: sharply funny, emotionally expansive essays and linked short fiction exploring family, queer desire, pop culture, and race The late Anthony...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020A BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020America. In the twilight of the Gold Rush, two siblings cross a landscape with a gun in their hands and the body of their father on their backs . . . Ba dies in the night, Ma is...

"Suspenseful...emotionally compelling. I found myself eagerly following in a way I hadn't remembered for a long time, impatient for the next twist and turn of the story."-NPRAn Afghan American woman returns to Kabul to learn the truth about her family...

Friday August 15th, 1997. Two tiny Korean babies are delivered to two very different Baltimore families.Every year, on the anniversary of 'Arrival Day' the two families celebrate together, with more and more elaborately competitive parties, as little...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Asian American Studies Book Award 2017.Book InformationISBN 9781101872369Author Shawna Yang RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin...

"A woman falls for a K-pop star at a distance in this thoughtful romance for the online age." THE GUARDIAN It's as if her life only began once Moon appeared in it. The desultory copywriting work, the boyfriend, and the want of anything not-Moon...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735224292Author Celeste NgFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 601gDimensions(mm) 236mm *...

WINNER OF THE JOHN LEONARD PRIZE AT THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS AND THE FERRO-GRUMLEY AWARD FOR LGBTQ FICTIONTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'So's distinctive voice is ever-present: mellifluous, streetwise and slightly brash, at once cynical and...

Tessa is a successful writer who develops a friendship, first by correspondence and then in person, with Charlie, a ruggedly handsome philosopher and scholar. Sparks fly as they exchange ideas about Camus and masculine desire, and their intellectual...

THE EXPLOSIVE NOVEL FROM PULITZER PRIZE WINNER AYAD AKHTAR'Terrific' The Times'Extraordinary' Sunday Express'A great American story' MetroHOW OFTEN DOES SOMEONE YOU MEET TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE?Hayat Shah was captivated by Mina long before he met her: his...

WINNER OF THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE 'Spellbinding' i 'Breathtaking' Elle 'Powerhouses of feeling and depth' Mary Gaitskill 'Sharp and vital' Daisy Johnson 'Excellent' Margaret Atwood on Twitter An ex-boxer turned nail salon worker falls for a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638930525Author Elysha ChangFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Sjp LitPublisher Sjp LitWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm * 33mm

'Powerful . . . A twisting tale of love, loss, and dark family secrets' Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train and Into the WaterIt begins with a mystery. Sylvie, the beautiful, brilliant, successful older daughter...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501154829Author Lisa SeeFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 159mm *...

Of the twelve short stories appearing in Ha Noi at Midnight, ten are appearing in English for the first time. Bringing to life the full range of Bao Ninh's inventive and poetic language, Quan Manh Ha and Cab Tran are granting to English readers Bao...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Agatha Awards (Best First Novel) 2021.Book InformationISBN 9780593201671Author Mia P. ManansalaFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Berkley Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645660408Author Mizuki TsujimuraFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint ErewhonPublisher ErewhonWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 222mm * 145mm * 30mm

'Joe Ide is the best new discovery I've come across in a long time. And Isaiah Quintabe is the kind of sleuth not seen on the mystery landscape before.' MICHAEL CONNELLYTHE TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH: 'Full of humour, originality and high-quality...

'A compelling, powerful portrait of a terrible endurance. Terrific' The TimesFour months after Pearl Harbor, signs begin appearing up and down the West Coast instructing all persons of Japanese ancestry to report to 'assembly centers'. For one family -...

Polygon "The Best Comics of 2022" List Writer PORNSAK PICHETSHOTE's long-awaited follow-up to the critically acclaimed INFIDEL with stunning art by ALEXANDRE TEFENKGI (OUTPOST ZERO)! Following Edison Harki, a haunted, self-loathing Chinese-American...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'So's distinctive voice is ever-present: mellifluous, streetwise and slightly brash, at once cynical and bighearted...unique and quintessential' Sunday Times'So's stories reimagine and reanimate the Central Valley, in the way...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538753255Author Boon Joon HoFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Little, Brown & Company

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICKINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'I loved this book so much' REESE WITHERSPOON---In 1987, Mina Lee flies from Seoul to Los Angeles to start a new life.Thirty years later, Margot Lee speaks to her mother for the last time.Between...

HOW TO UPEND YOUR LIFE: Get fired by gross, handsy boss Fail to do laundry (again) Be mistaken for famous Chinese actress Fall head-first into glitzy new worldGracie Reed is doing just fine. Sure, she was fired by her overly "friendly" boss, and yes she...

'Sensational' Guardian'Utterly immersive' Daily Mail'There was a time I would have called Lisa Ko's novel beautifully written, ambitious and moving, and all of that is true, but it's more than that now: if you want to understand a forgotten and essential...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing 2016 (United States) and Hindu Prize 2017 (India).Book InformationISBN 9781632061423Author Deepak...

'Every word makes me ache ... Written with exquisite empathy and grace' Roxane Gay 'Singularly beautiful and psychologically harrowing ... One of the best American novels of this century' Boston Globe Twelve-year-old Fee is a shy Korean American...

Born in a big old Calcutta house on the same night, the wild, tragic night both their fathers were mysteriously lost, Sudha and Anju are cousins. Closer even than sisters, they share clothes, possessions, worries, dreams - and three mothers, who preside...

"A remarkably assured debut" Sunday Times"This is as much a novel as a reckoning." New York TimesThe characters are alluring and ... engaging. So too are the emotional struggles the crew endure as they try to balance duty to family with their love for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593237632Author Wesley ChuFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Contains a sneak preview of Meera Syal's brand new novel, THE HOUSE OF HIDDEN MOTHERSThere's no such thing as a happy ending , is there ...?Sunita - perfect housewife - is married to Akash, but is her marriage what it seems? Chila - warm, loveable - has...

'The best discovery I've come across in a long time' Michael ConnellyWhen the beautiful woman you've longed for since boyhood calls and asks you to find her missing sister, what do you do? If you are Isaiah Quintabe - IQ to his friends - you'll do...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551527314Author Larissa LaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press

Isaiah Quintabe - IQ for short - has never been more successful, or felt more alone. A series of high-profile wins in his hometown of East Long Beach have made him so notorious that he can hardly go to the corner store without being recognized. Dodson,...