Books like East Wind: West Wind
Kwei-lan, raised in the old ways to be a perfect Chinese wife, tells a foreign friend of her marriage to a doctor trained in the West who wants her to unbind her feet.
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Pavilion of Women
On her fortieth birthday, Madame Wu, the serene mistress of a great Chinese household, announces she will choose a concubine for her husband so that she can at last live for herself.
His Only Wife
Afi Tekple, a young seamstress in a small Ghanaian town, is married to Elikem, a wealthy man she barely knows, who misses the wedding, and moves to Accra, where she learns that his family married her to him to draw him away from another woman.
The Joy Luck Club
Four Chinese mothers and their four American daughters in San Francisco pass their stories across a bridge that the war and the immigration and the language will not let them entirely cross.
So Long a Letter
After her husband's death, a Senegalese schoolteacher writes to her oldest friend about the day he took a second wife and the life she rebuilt afterward.
Savushun
In Shiraz during the Second World War, with foreign armies occupying Iran, Zari watches her husband Yusof, a landowner, refuse to sell his grain to them.
One Part Woman
Kali and Ponna, a farming couple in Tamil Nadu, still have no child after twelve years of marriage, and their families suggest a festival night when a childless woman may lie with a stranger.
Cosima
Deledda's late novel of her own girlhood in Nuoro, Sardinia, where a girl from a strict, conventional household secretly writes stories and dreams of a life in literature.
Dominicana
In 1965 Ana Canción, fifteen, is married off by her family to Juan Ruiz, a man twice her age, and taken from the Dominican countryside to an apartment in Washington Heights, so that the rest of them can follow.
Interpreter of Maladies
Nine stories of Indian immigrants and their American-born children, caught between cultures and the quiet tragedies of misunderstanding.
Waiting
Lin Kong, an army doctor in China, goes home every summer to ask his peasant wife from an arranged marriage for a divorce so he can marry a nurse, and every year she agrees and then changes her mind in court.
Real Americans
In New York in 1999 Lily Chen, twenty-two and the daughter of Chinese immigrants, is scraping by on an unpaid internship when she falls for Matthew, the son of an enormously rich family. In 2021 their teenage son, Nick, who knows little of where he comes from, goes looking for his father.
Selected Short Stories
Tagore's Bengali stories of the 1890s and after: a postmaster and the orphan girl who keeps house for him, a Kabuliwallah fruit-seller and a small girl, child brides and village clerks.