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"In 1938, Ruby, Helen and Grace, three girls from very different backgrounds, find themselves competing at the same audition for showgirl roles at San Francisco's exclusive "Oriental" nightclub, the Forbidden City. Grace, an American-born Chinese girl has fled the Midwest and an abusive father. Helen is from a Chinese family who have deep roots in San Francisco's Chinatown. And, as both her friends know, Ruby is Japanese passing as Chinese. At times...
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Winner of the Agatha Award.
"Sujata Massey blasts her way into fiction with The Salaryman's Wife, a cross-cultural mystery of manners with a decidedly sexy edge."— Janet Evanonich
Japanese-American Rei Shimura is a 27-year-old English teacher living in one of Tokyo's seediest neighborhoods. She doesn't make much money, but she wouldn't go back home to California even if she had a free ticket (which,
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2021.
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English
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"A memoir about a young woman's journey to understanding her complicated parents--her father a Vietnam veteran, her mother an Okinawan war bride--and her own, fraught cultural heritage. Elizabeth's mother was working as a nightclub hostess on U.S.-occupied Okinawa when she met the American soldier who would become her husband. The language barrier and power imbalance that defined their early relationship followed them to the predominantly white, upstate...
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Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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First edition.
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48 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
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This biography of the first Asian American woman elected to Congress showed how she carved her own path to become a historic trailblazer. Patsy Takemoto Mink was a champion of equal rights who helped create a better future for all Americans through her fight for Title IX.
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Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
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xvi, 397 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"Raised poor on her family's rice farm in rural Japan, Hirono was seven years old when her mother left her abusive husband and sailed with her two elder children to the United States, crossing the Pacific in steerage in search of a better life. Though the girl then known as "Keiko" did not speak English when she entered school in Hawaii, she would go on to hold state and national office, winning election to the U.S. Senate in 2012. This intimate and...
14) Girl in a box
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2006]
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First edition.
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viii, 296 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
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