May is Asian Heritage Month and to celebrate we are highlighting Asian authors who have written books we've loved that we wanted to share. There are a lot of countries in Asia and we don't have representation for all of them today, but stay tuned and we will surely have more to come.

Discussed:
Before the Coffee Gets Cold, by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Housekeeper and the Professor, by Yōko Ogawa
Pachinko, by Lee Min-jin
Last Story of Mina Lee, by Nancy Jooyoun Kim
Author Julie Otsuka: When the Emperor Was Divine; Buddha in the Attic; Swimmers
On Earth We're  Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong
Time Is a Mother, by Ocean Vuong
Night Tiger, by Yangsze Choo
Dial "A" for Aunties, by Jesse A. Sutanto
Clark & Division, by Naomi Hirahara
Everything I Never Told You, by Celeste Ng
Little Fires Everywhere, by Celeste Ng
Traveling Cat Chronicles, by Hiro Arikawa
Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore, by Kim Fu
Buried Giant, by Kazuo Ishiguro
Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan
Searching for Sylvie Lee, by Jean Kwok
They Called Us Enemy, by George Takei
The Mountains Sing, by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
Library of Legends, by Janie Chang
White Chrysanthemum, by Mary Lunn Bracht
Crazy Rich Asians, by Kevin Kwan

Other staff recommendations:
A Taste for Love, by Jennifer Yen
Cursed Bunny, by Bora Chung
Lonely Castle in the Mirror, by Mizuki Tsujimura
Author: Gen Luen Yang
Persepolis, by Maryjane Satrapi
She Who Became the Sun, by Shelley Parker-Chan
The Chosen and the Beautiful, by Nghi Vo
The Cat Who Saved Books, by Sōsuke Natsukawa
Farewell My Concubine, by Lilian Lee
Memoirs of a Geisha, by Arthur Golden

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