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Cristina Garcia The story of two middle-aged Cuban sisters--one living in Havana, one in New York City--who have been estranged for more than thirty years. F Gar
David Wong Long In a portrait of the Chinese-American experience, Sterling Lung is a man caught between two worlds, the son of parents who run a Chinese laundry, but also a Culinary Institute of America-trained classical French chef. F Lou
Edgardo Vega Yungue A vivid, gripping tale of action and mystery, Blood Fugues explores the ways in which family ties and secrets spin their way into our present lives, shaping our desires, our fears, and our futures. F Veg
Sandra Cisneros During her family's annual car trip from Chicago to Mexico City, Lala Reyes listens to stories about her family in a multi-generational saga of a Mexican-American family. F Cis
Diana Abu-Jaber Never married, living with an Iraqi-immigrant uncle and devoted dog, and working as a chef in a Lebanese restaurant, thirty-nine-year-old Sirine finds her life turned upside down by a handsome Arabic literature professor. F Abu Mei Ng A radiant and powerful first novel of a young Chinese American woman who is torn between her role as a dutiful daughter and being a liberated college graduate. F Ng
The Gangster We Are All Looking For Thi Diem Thuy Le The life of a Vietnamese family in America luminously observed through the knowing eyes of a child. The Gangster We Are All Looking For is an authentically original story of finding one's place and voice in America. F Le Amitav Ghosh Ana Menendez Tales about Cuban immigrants attempting to make new lives in America, presented by a Pushcart Prize winner, touching on themes of the hopes and disappointments of post-revolutionary Castro Cuba, cultural ties that bind family, and more. F Men Inheritance F Dan
In a crumbling house in the remote northeastern Himalayas, an embittered, elderly judge finds his peaceful retirement turned upside down by the arrival of his orphaned granddaughter, Sai.
Lost City Radio Imparting comfort while reading the names of missing people to her war-ravaged listeners, radio host Norma finds her life irrevocably changed when a young boy from a remote jungle village provides a connection to her long- missing husband.
The Madonnas of Leningrad: a novel In a novel that moves back and forth between the Soviet Union during World War II and modern-day America, Marina, an elderly Russian woman, recalls vivid images of her youth during the height of the siege of Leningrad. F Dea Judy Fong Bates The story of Su-Jen Chou, a Chinese girl growing up the only daughter of an unhappy and isolated immigrant family in a small Ontario town in the 1950s
Jhumpa Lahiri A portrait of the immigrant experience follows the Ganguli family from their traditional life in India through their arrival in Massachusetts in the late 1960s and their difficult melding into an American way of life. F Lah
The Saffron Kitchen When her troubled past violently resurfaces with tragic consequences for her pregnant daughter, Maryam Mazar departs for the remote Iranian village of her youth, where she learns the price her own mother paid to secure her freedom. A first novel. F Cro
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian Putting aside a lifetime of rivalry when they learn that their recently widowed father is planning to remarry, sisters Vera and Nadezhda find themselves outmaneuvered by their father's scheming fiancee. F Lew Song of the Cuckoo Bird: a novel Kokila, a young orphan, refuses an arranged marriage, a decision that condemns her to a life of poverty and isolation in which she must fight for a place in a society that measures a woman's worth through her marriage and children. F Mal
Space Between Us Captures the delicate balance of class and gender in contemporary India as witnessed through the lives of two women--Sera Dubash, an upper middle-class housewife, and Bhima, an illiterate domestic hardened by a life of loss and despair. F Umr
Contact Kristin Pehnke 609.924.9529, ext. 257 kpehnke@princetonlibrary.org
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