🌏 Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month ⛩

 

Spanning the whole of Asia, from Japan to India, and the Pacific Islands from Hawaii to New Zealand, the culture of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders is celebrated in the month of May. Here at Jessup Library we are focusing on the contribution of Asian American and Pacific Islander's to America's literary anthology. 

Explore the early history of Polynesia and the puzzle of how they struck out into the oceans and settled faraway islands in Sea People: the Puzzle of Polynesia. Discover how to cook Hawaiian-style with Aloha Kitchen: recipes from Hawaii. George Takei (of Star Trek fame) takes us through his personal experience of what it was like in the Japanese internment camps in America during World War II in his graphic novel They Called Us Enemy.

Explore the Asian American and Pacific Islander culture and their stories that have so greatly enriched our American experience as a whole.

More suggestions are below:

Interpreter of maladies: stories
Lahiri, Jhumpa.

The enchantress of Florence: a novel
Rushdie, Salman

Captive paradise: a history of Hawaii
Haley, James L.

The three-year swim club : the untold story of Maui's Sugar Ditch kids and their quest for Olympic glory                  Checkoway, Julie

Minor feelings: an Asian American reckoning
Hong, Cathy Park

The making of Asian America: a history
Lee, Erika