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  • No-No Boy by John Okada
    No-No Boy by John Okada

    BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: Love, disappointment course through 4 classic Asian American novels After their forcible relocation to internment camps during World War II, Japanese Americans were expected...

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  • East Goes West by Younghill Kang
    East Goes West by Younghill Kang

    BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: Love, disappointment course through 4 classic Asian American novels Having fled Japanese-occupied Korea for the gleaming promise of the United States with nothing but...

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  • The Hanging on Union Square by H. T. Tsiang
    The Hanging on Union Square by H. T. Tsiang

    BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: Love, disappointment course through 4 classic Asian American novels It's Depression-era New York, and Mr. Nut, an oblivious American everyman, wants to strike it...

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  • America Is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan
    America Is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan

    BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: Love, disappointment course through 4 classic Asian American novels Poet, essayist, novelist, fiction writer and labor organizer, Carlos Bulosan (1911-1956) wrote one of the...

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