In honor of APAHM, NBCAsianAmerica is taking a look at some of the best recent books written by Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
Warm, candid, and full of insights on race, heritage, family and motherhood, this memoir by the editor in chief of Catapult magazine and the former managing editor of The Toast was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography, long-listed for the PEN Open Book Award, and named a Best Book of the Year by almost two dozen outlets, including The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, NPR, Time, Newsday, and Library Journal.
has said, “There are many days when I feel like a janky piece of kid art. ‘No Mistakes’ helps me underline the art and appreciate the janky.”Mariner Bookshas put together a collection of essays exploring questions about creating oneself in life and art. With articles by Lawson Fusao Inada, Martha Nakagawa, Stephen H. Sumida, Shawn Wong, and Jeffrey T. Yamashita, “” is the first full-length examination of Okada and his work.
A poet, visual artist and editor of “Hoʻomānoa: An Anthology of Contemporary Hawaiian Literature,” Balaz is known for writing in both standard English and
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