02 February 2010

Hyphen Magazine's 10 Notable Asian American Books of 2009

Fiction:

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (W. W. Norton & Company)
By Daniyal Mueenuddin

Once the Shore (Sarabande Books)
By Paul Yoon

All that Work and Still No Boys (Iowa University Press)
By Kathryn Ma

Non-Fiction:

Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
By Minal Hajratwala

In Hanuman's Hands (HarperCollins)
By Cheeni Rao

Poetry:

Behind My Eyes (W. W. Norton & Company)
By Li-Young Lee

Legend Sondayo (Civil Defense Press)
By Maiana Minahal

The Heart's Traffic (Red Hen Press)
By Ching-in Chen

Young Adult:

Skunk Girl (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
By Shebha Karim

Illustrated:

Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology (The New Press)
Edited by Jeff Yang, Parry Shen, Keith Chow and Jerry Ma

Original article can be found HERE.