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What happened to Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II. A picture story of the lives of families who survived America's concentration camps.

The story of three Japanese women and their loves. One is a Japanese-American university student in New York, the second is her divorced mother and the third is the grandmother, a retired geisha. A tale of Japanese-American identity and a debut in…

Returning home to the Idaho potato farm she fled twenty-five years earlier, Yumi struggles with her father's terminal illness, her mother's Alzheimer's, her former best friend, and a former lover who once offended the town.

In Waves, the poet Bei Dao turns to fiction, recording the painful years of the Cultural Revolution and its aftermath. Avoiding polemics, his attention is on individuals swept up in the turbulent political tides of contemporary China.

Mira Kannadical returns to India after graduate school in England to teach, but when she moves into a house on Nampally road in Hyderabad, she must come to terms with the conflicts and contradictions of life in modern India.

A Japanese-American college student tries to create a normal life for herself in 2052 Los Angeles--a place where water is rationed, disease flourishes, corruption is the rule, and survival takes precedence over everything else.

After the Korean War, three young people--Hyung Jin, a girl disowned by her parents; Sookie, a teenage prostitute; and Lobetto, a lost boy who pimps for neighborhood girls--desperately long to come to America and start a new life.

A complex tale about the dislocation and transformation that arise in the face of a meeting of cultures: the Puritan American and the Mughal Indian.

Like the canaries that alerted miners to a poisonous atmosphere, issues of race point to underlying problems in society that ultimately affect everyone, not just minorities.

By the 1920s and 1930s, a vibrant Filipina/o American society had developed in Seattle, creating a culture whose members, including some who were not of Filipina/o descent, chose to pursue options in the U.S. or in the Philippines. Fujita-Rony also…