The Joy Luck Club
The personal, often painful, histories of four Chinese American women who began meeting in San Francisco in 1949 to play mah jong are revealed as the daughter of one who has died searches for her sisters in China to tell them about the mother they never knew.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 250
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 930
subjects: chinese american women, mothers and daughters [X], mother-daughter relationship, chinese americans [X], women, domestic fiction, tan, amy, chinese american literature, american literature, chinese american fiction, reminiscing in old age, loss (psychology), san francisco (calif.), audiobooks, mothers, female friendship, domestic fiction, family life, electronic books
The Kitchen God's Wife
Lifelong friends, Winnie and Helen, have kept each other's secrets for more than fifty years.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 37
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 810
subjects: chinese american families, chinese americans [X], mothers and daughters [X], california, china, mother-daughter relationship, tan, amy, chinese-american literature
Girl In Translation
Ah-Kim Chang and her mother immigrate to Brooklyn, where they work for Kim's Aunt Paula in a Chinatown clothing factory earning barely enough to keep them alive; however, Kim's perseverance and hard work earns her a place at an elite private school where she is befriended by Annette, who helps her adjust to American culture.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 25
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 840
subjects: chinese, women immigrants, chinese american teenagers, mothers and daughters [X], chinese americans [X], new york (n.y.), mother-daughter relationship, teenagers
Rhapsody In Plain Yellow
A collection of poems by award-winning author Marilyn Chin.
811
year: 2002
copies: 1
call number/section: 811
lexile:
This Place Is Still Beautiful
"The Flanagan sisters are as different as they come. . . When their house is vandalized with a shocking racial slur, Margaret rushes home from her summer internship in New York City.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: sisters, mothers and daughters [X], chinese americans [X], discrimination, man-woman relationships, romance, racism
Joan Is Okay
"Joan is a thirty-something ICU doctor at a busy New York City hospital.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: chinese americans [X], physicians, mothers and daughters [X], identity (philosophical concept), epidemics, mother-daughter relationship, identity (psychology)
If I Have To Be Haunted
"Cara Tang doesn't want to be haunted. Look, the dead have issues, and Cara has enough of her own.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: voyages to the otherworld, chinese americans [X], voyages and travels, interpersonal relations, teenage girls, ghosts, supernatural fiction, mothers and daughters [X]