On this episode, we highlight the latest book and publishing news in Asian American literature for our September 2022 mid-month check-in, this month we also check out some recent book awards updates and have a chat about the sad recent trends of book bans.
New books and authors mentioned in our publishing news:
- Song of the Six Realms by Judy Lin
- Good Fortune by C.K. Chau
- Covenant series by LySandra Vuong
- Oxherd Boy by Regina Linke
- My Father, the Panda Killer by Jamie Jo Hoang
- Toto by Hyewon Yum
- A Suffragist's Guide to the Antarctic by Yi Shun Lai
- The Spirit Mirror by Roshani Chokshi
- A Drop of Venom by Sajni Patel
- The No-Shoes Home by Helena Ku Rhee; illust by Myo Yim
- I Drew a Heart by Gillian Sze
- Perfect by Waka T. Brown; illust by Yuko Jones
- Ganesha Goes Green by Lakshmi Thamizhmani; illust by Debasmita Dasgupta
- A Sky That Sings by Anita Sanchez & George Steele; illust by Emily Mendoza
- Goodnight Zodiac Animals by Jiemei Lin
- Postcards from Malcolm X: How Yuri Kochiyama Became a Civil Rights Activist by Mia Wenjen; illust by Keith Henry Brown
- Together on Eid by Sana Rafi; illust by Mariam Quraishi
- When We Were Sisters by Fatimah Asghar
- The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories by Jamil Jan Kochai
- All This Could be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews
- As She Appears by Shelley Wong
- The Rupture Tense by Jenny Xie
- A Thousand Steps into Night by Traci Chee
- Maizy Chen’s Last Chance by Lisa Yee
- All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
- Seasons of Purgatory Shahriar Mandanipour
- Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada
- Ibn Arabi’s Small Death by Mohammed Hasan Alwan
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