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Dancer Dawkins and the California Kid

By Willyce Kim. Foreword by Eunsong Kim

A sapphic novel ahead of its time that delights in queer joy, love, and adventure

Dancer Dawkins is a swift-footed, weed-smoking football stud. Her lover, Jessica, left their place in Los Angeles to join a Napa...

Uncle Rico's Encore

Mostly True Stories of Filipino Seattle

By Peter Bacho

A love note to the city and its once vibrant Pinoy community

From the 1950s through the 1970s, blue-collar Filipino Americans, or Pinoys, lived a hardscrabble existence. Immigrant parents endured blatant racism, sporadic violence, and poverty...

Awake in the River and Shedding Silence

By Janice Mirikitani. Foreword by Juliana Chang

Groundbreaking poems in Asian American feminist literature

Fierce, raw, and unapologetic, Janice Mirikitani’s poetry and prose are as vibrant and resonant today as when these two collections were first published in 1978 and 1987. Now back...

Eat a Bowl of Tea

By Louis Chu. Foreword by Fae Myenne Ng. Introduction by Jeffery Paul Chan

At the close of the Second World War, racist immigration laws trapped enclaves of old men in Chinatowns across the United States, preventing their wives or families from joining them. They took refuge from loneliness...