The Reading Squad: Asian American Heritage

17/05/2020 32 min Temporada 1 Episodio 1

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Welcome to The Reading Squad, a monthly podcast where Rashmila and Rachel discuss books on the monthly theme, what they are reading, and other tidbits on book culture. 
We celebrated May as Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. It honors the achievements and contributions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States. We mentioned/discussed the following books in the podcast.

Montress by Lysley Tenorio
A Thousand Beginnings and Endings by Ellen Oh and Elsie Chapman
The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
Little Fireflies Everywhere By Celeste Ng
Ladies’ Coupe by Anita Nair
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Great Indian Novel by  Shashi Tharoor
The Short Stories of Willa Cather by Willa Cather
The Night Trilogy by Elie Wiesel
The All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness
1984 by George Orwell
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
Big Little Man by Alex Tizon
The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami
Garnethill by Denise Mina
Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
The Bear and The Nightingale by Katherine Arden
The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman