Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

 

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sian American literature and history, paired with the literature of American Pacific Islanders and their history, is a vast and deep subject and it is a thread well worthy of delving into. Explore the history of the internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War in the book Impounded, which includes the photographs of famed photographer Dorothea Lange. Or drop into the world of Vietnamese American Thi Bui and her family’s difficult struggle to make a new life in America after immigration in graphic novel The Best We Could Do.

Dorothea Lange.

Read fun novels like Kevin Kwan, starting with Crazy Rich Asians and a YA book by Jenny Han To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. Dive into Erika Lee’s The Making of Asian America: A History, which gives a comprehensive view of Asian America from it’s earliest beginnings to now.  Enjoy Jhumpa Lahiri’s masterpiece The Namesake about an Indian American growing up in the United States after his parents immigrated. 

So many wonderful options to take off the shelf and peruse!  Happy reading!