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Hizashi no Naka no Rairu
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Do Asians Have Body Hair?
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Asian American Commercial Watch: The Year of the You – TurboTax
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Filipino Kinship Terms and their Confusing Translation into English
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Category Archives: 8Series
8Books Review: “Rich and Pretty” by Rumaan Alam
Rich and Pretty is not your average book about friendship, where everything is great, your friends can do no wrong, and everyone is beautiful. Ok, everyone is beautiful, at least it seems. But still, this is a book that offers a complicated … Continue reading
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“Goofy,” A Short Story Part 3 of 3
Author’s note: I originally wrote this story 2013 for a children’s book about the Japanese American World War II experience. I published it on 8Asians in 2014. However, with the recent events and rhetoric surrounding our presidential election, I started … Continue reading
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“Goofy,” A Short Story Part 2 of 3
Author’s note: I originally wrote this story 2013 for a children’s book about the Japanese American World War II experience. I published it on 8Asians in 2014. However, with the recent events and rhetoric surrounding our presidential election, I started … Continue reading
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“Goofy,” A Short Story Part 1 of 3
Author’s note: I originally wrote this story 2013 for a children’s book about the Japanese American World War II experience. I published it on 8Asians in 2014. However, with the recent events and rhetoric surrounding our presidential election, I started … Continue reading
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8Books Review: “Not a Self-Help Book” by Yi Shun Lai
Yi Shun Lai’s novel Not a Self-Help Book: The Misadventures of Marty Wu delves into friendships, relationships, career crises, and how to deal with your mother. Written in a diary style, Marty Wu guides us through the ups and downs of … Continue reading
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8Books Review: “Love, Loss, and What We Ate” by Padma Lakshmi
Padma Lakshmi’s memoir, Love, Loss, and What We Ate is an intimate look at family, growing, grief, and eating through life’s ups and downs. Best known for her role as host on Top Chef, Lakshmi takes us from childhood to the present in … Continue reading
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8Books Review: “The Association of Small Bombs,” by Karan Mahajan
Karan Mahajan’s latest novel The Association of Small Bombs delves deep inside lives affected by a marketplace bomb in Delhi. It is a terror shocks some, then passes through the news cycle, while upending the lives of others in ways conscious … Continue reading
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8Books Review: “The Art of Charile Chan Hock Chye” by Sonny Liew
The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye presented by Sonny Liew is an imaginative and brilliantly crafted narrative about the title man, one of Singapore’s premier comic artists. Chan, now an old man, narrates his life story and Sonny illustrates … Continue reading
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8Books Review: “The Translation of Love” by Lynne Kutsukake
Lynne Kutsukake’s novel The Translation of Love is an emotional and engaging journey through post-war Japan as seen by its wide cast of characters. It is a unique picture of what happens after war–the consequences of war, the struggles to … Continue reading
8Books Review: “Asians in Colorado” by William Wei
Asians in Colorado by William Wei unearths a local and regional history of Chinese and Japanese in the Centennial State. Wei positions the unique aspects of the state’s history within the broader national story. It is the stories of little … Continue reading
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8Books Review: “When Breath Becomes Air” by Paul Kalanithi
My schedule rarely allows me to read entire books, but after I read about Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air, a New York Times bestseller, I decided that I would actually buy and read it. While Kalanithi didn’t focus his book … Continue reading
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Asian American Commercial Watch: Jane Kim for California State Senate (District 11) – “Fight”
Full disclosure: I’m a friend and have a lot of mutual friends with Jane Kim, and know her initially through a former 8Asians blogger (who used to be roommates with her). I think I may have donated to some of … Continue reading