A Japanese American man recounts his grandfather's journey to America which he later also undertakes, and the feelings of being torn by a love for two different countries.

After a young Chinese American girl opens fortune cookies with her family, she notices that the fortunes seem to come true. Includes brief notes on the history of the fortune cookie. A fun look at the fortunes you get in Chinese restaurants and whether or not they come true.

An American sailor courts a Japanese girl and each tries, in secret, to learn the other's way of eating.

A Chinese American girl provides rhyming descriptions of the great variety of colors she sees around her, from the red of a dragon, firecrackers, and lychees to the brown of her teddy bear.

The author describes growing up in Berkeley, California, as a Nisei, second generation Japanese American, and her family's internment in a Utah concentration camp during World War II.

Twenty folktales originally recounted by Chinese-American immigrants as part of a 1930s WPA project.

Tomikazu Nakaji's biggest concerns are baseball, homework, and a local bully, until life with his Japanese family in Hawaii changes drastically after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

These ten stories reflect the conflict Asian Americans face in balancing an ancient heritage and an unknown future. Includes Taiwan, China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam & Philippines.

April is happy with her life, except for living with her grandmother who seems to disapprove of everything she does. Feeling confined by the traditional family attitudes of her strong-willed, manipulative grandmother, she fights for her independence.

Dimple, whose family is from India, discovers that she is not Indian enough for the Indians nor American enough for the Americans, as she sees her hypnotically beautiful,
manipulative best friend taking possession of both her heritage and the boy she likes.

Having fled Cambodia four years earlier to escape the Khmer Rouge army, Sundara is torn between remaining faithful to her own people and enjoying life in her Oregon high school as a "regular" American.

Korean American Chan moves from Los Angeles to a small town in Minnesota, where he must cope not only with racism on the football team but also with the tensions in his
relationship with his strict father.
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When a great guru invites Parvati to study with him, she devotes her life to the dance. Then she meets a gentle-eyed boy who turns her life upside down.

When she is five, Young Ju Park and her family move from Korea to California. During the flight, they climb so far into the sky she concludes they are on their way to heaven -- that Heaven is in America! Life in America, however, is far more difficult than the Parks dreamed.

This debut novel, the story of two Fllipino brothers adrift in contemporary California, a violent and alienating world, captures the underbelly of the modern immigrant experience.

In a tale that alternates between black comedy and out-and-out slapstick, Louie explores the painful alienation between a Chinese-American man and his immigrant father--a conflict that is deepened by the son's decision to become a chef instead of a doctor.

This is the story of LuLing Young, who searches for the name of her mother, the daughter of the famous Bonesetter from the Mouth of the Mountain. The story conjures the pain of broken dreams, the power of myths, and the strength of love that enables us to recover in memory what we have lost in grief.

The story of Anju and Sudha, the two young women at the center of Divakaruni's bestselling novel Sister of My Heart. Far from Calcutta, the city of their childhood, and after a year of living separate lives, Anju and Sudha rekindle their friendship in America.

In eight fiercely funny and poignant stories, Gish Jen looks at Chinese-Americans--old and young, parents and children, husbands and wives--as they make their way in American society.