Asian Drama

A “fierce, comic” (New York Times) modern classic that follows a Chinese American chef navigating the uneasy terrain between cultural history and personal reinvention. Sterling Lung grew up in the back of his parents’ laundry, speaking Chinese to his mother, English to his friends, and...

You Had Me at Hola meets The Hating Game in this spicy enemies-to-lovers romance about two movie stars who are forced to work together after a viral celebrity beef debacle. Clara Kim is full of spite. Spite is what fueled her to become a Hollywood actress when no one in her immigrant family...

Anne Tyler meets Jade Chang in this buoyant, good-hearted novel about a blithely optimistic immigrant with big dreams, dire prospects, and a fractured extended family in need of his help—even if they don't know it yet “Ma’s iteration of the young migrant story is imbued with inherent...

A beautifully unconventional debut novel about a girl, a boy, and a satellite—and a bittersweet meditation on loneliness, alienation, and what it means to be human. Longlisted for Canada Reads, shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary Fiction and for Speculative Fiction...

“Narrator Katharine Chin elevates this contemporary coming-of-age story featuring four Asian American friends...A resonant listening experience rich with biting social commentary.” — Kirkus “The artistic delivery from [narrator Katharine] Chin adds an undercurrent of desperation to the...

A riveting story of a powerful Chinese family's fall from grace Enter the world of an elite Chinese couple: a life of luxury, wealth, and around-the-clock service, which includes their trusted nanny, Yu Ling. Slipping in and out of the shadows, meticulous in her care of their only son, she has...

A whip-smart and charming debut novel that brilliantly reimagines Pride and Prejudice, set in contemporary Chinatown, exploring contemporary issues of class divides, family ties, cultural identity, and the pleasures and frustrations that come with falling in love. When Elizabeth Chen’s...

"I loved this book and can't stop talking about it. . . . Transcendent." —Carolyn See, The Washington Post In the tradition of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Wang Gang's English is a captivating coming-of-age novel about the power of language to launch a journey of self-discovery...

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE A “boisterous and infectious debut novel” (The Guardian) about a group of friends and their immigrant families from Queens, New York—a tenderly observed, fiercely poetic love letter to a modern generation of brown girls. “An acute study of those...