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Ichiro Yamada comes home to Seattle in 1946 after two years in an internment camp and two in prison for refusing to swear loyalty to the United States or serve in its army, and finds himself despised by much of the Japanese American community.
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Minor Feelings
Hong writes about Asian-American shame, Richard Pryor, friendship, and why the minor feelings of a model-minority life refuse to stay put.
Everything I Never Told You
Lydia is dead. So begins the story of the Lees, a Chinese American family in 1970s small-town Ohio, whose favourite daughter is found in the local lake, and whose parents, brother and younger sister were never as close as they seemed.
Passing
Irene Redfield, a doctor's wife in Harlem, runs into her childhood friend Clare Kendry in a Chicago hotel and learns that Clare has been passing as white, married to a white man who knows nothing of her past.
An Artist of the Floating World
In the years after World War II, a once-celebrated Japanese painter tries to arrange his daughter's marriage while slowly facing the propaganda he made for the imperial cause.
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.
The Victim
In a sweltering New York summer, with his wife away, Asa Leventhal is accosted by Kirby Allbee, a down-and-out acquaintance who accuses him of having ruined his life.
The Sound of the Mountain
An ageing patriarch in postwar Japan listens to the mountain and contemplates his family's slow dissolution, beauty, and the nearness of death.
Billiards at Half-Past Nine
On the day of his eightieth birthday in 1958, the architect Heinrich Faehmel and his son and grandson, three generations of a Cologne family, look back on fifty years of Germany.
Sankofa
Anna Bain, a mixed-race woman in London whose marriage has ended and whose mother has just died, finds her mother's old diary and learns that her father was a West African student who went on to rule his country.
Kokoro
A student in Meiji-era Tokyo befriends a withdrawn older man he calls Sensei, whose long final letter reveals the betrayal that hollowed out his life.
Go Set a Watchman
Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch comes home from New York to Maycomb, Alabama, in the mid-1950s for her annual visit and discovers that her father Atticus, and the town that raised her, are not what she believed.
What's Mine and Yours
When a North Carolina county brings Black and Latino students from the east side into a mostly white high school, two families, Gee's and Noelle's, are bound together for the next twenty years.