Nami Mun
f MILES FROM NOWHERE
The story of teenage Joon, a Korean immigrant
living in the Bronx of the 1980s. “Explosive.”
—Booklist (starred review). “An intense look
at life on the streets, one that gives genuine
voice and heart to struggling people on society’s margins...[with] brilliant description,
achingly real narration and an affecting central
character.”—Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Riverhead 304 pp. 978-1-59448-854-2
Riverhead 304 pp. 978-1-59448-398-1
Riverhead paperback available September 2009
Shawna Yang Ryan
f WATER GHOSTS
“An auspicious debut that not only entertains,
but opens our eyes to a rich, poignant piece of
Chinese-American history.”—Gail Tsukiyama.
“Artfully woven, exquisitely modulated, walking a master’s line between ancient Chinese
myth and the grit of immigrant life in the
Sacramento Delta.”—Pam Houston.
Penguin Press 272 pp. 978-1-59420-207-0 $22.95
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$14.00
Julia Alvarez
f ONCE UPON A QUINCEAÑERA
Coming of Age in the USA
“Fascinating, exhaustively researched.”—
Washington Post Book World. “Though [Alvarez]
brings a critical eye to long-held myths...each
page is a love song to the cultural ties that bind
generations of women from a diverse group of
countries.”—Chicago Sun-Times.
Plume 288pp. 978-0-452-28830-0 $15.00
National Book Critics Circle finalist
An Na
A STEP FROM HEAVEN
“Young Ju’s parents don’t want her to become
too American, and Young Ju is ashamed of
them....As in the best writing, the particulars
make the story universal.”—Booklist (starred).
Speak 160 pp. 978-0-14-250027-9 $7.99
Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in YA Literature
Barbara H. Solomon, editor
OTHER VOICES, OTHER VISTAS
Short Stories from Africa, China,
India, Japan, and Latin America
See page 135
f HABÍA UNA VEZ UNA
De Niña a Mujer en USA
Spanish Translation by Liliana Valenzuela
Plume 320 pp. 978-0-452-28939-0
$15.00
Amy Tan
THE JOY LUCK CLUB
“Beautifully written...a jewel of a book.”—The
New York Times Book Review. “Wonderful...a significant lesson in what storytelling has to do
with memory and inheritance.”—San Francisco
Chronicle.
Penguin 288pp. 978-0-14-303809-2 $15.00
IN THE NAME OF SALOMÉ
“Original and illuminating...Alvarez’s most
ambitious work to date.”—The New York Times
Book Review. The epic fictional account of the
real-life Salomé Ureña—the “Emily Dickinson
of the Dominican Republic.”
Plume 368pp. 978-0-452-28243-8 $15.00
WAIT FOR ME
“She draws her characters completely
from within their souls....Gripping and
engrossing.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred).
Puffin 192 pp. 978-0-14-240918-3 $7.99
An ALA Best Book for Young Adults
THE KITCHEN GOD’S WIFE
“Tan returns to the richly textured world of
California’s immigrant Chinese...with its brilliant tapestry of characters and conflicts here
and overseas.”—Newsweek.
Penguin 416pp. 978-0-14-303810-8 $14.00
Also in Penguin: The Opposite of Fate, see page 139
THE OTHER SIDE / EL OTRO LADO
The author’s new collection of poetry, both
“playful and profound.”—The San Francisco
Chronicle Book Review.
Plume 176pp. 978-0-452-27341-2 $16.00
Bich Minh Nguyen
f SHORT GIRLS
“This absorbing novel about two sisters is
like a prism reflecting essential questions in a
variety of subtle, sharp, glistening ways: What
makes a family? A home? An American?”—
Elizabeth Strout. “Fluent, eloquent, intimate
prose.”—Margot Livesey.
Viking 304 pp. 978-0-670-02081-2 $25.95
SOMETHING TO DECLARE
“With admirable candor and gentle touches
of humor, she describes her struggles with
cultural hybridism.”— The New York Times.
Plume 320pp. 978-0-452-28067-0 $15.00
José Garcia Villa
f DOVEGLION: Collected Poems
See page 40
STEALING BUDDHA’S DINNER
A vivid memoir about childhood, assimilation, food, and growing up in the 1980s.
“[Nguyen’s] prose is engaging, precise,
compact.”—The New York Times Book Review.
Penguin 272pp. 978-0-14-311303-4 $14.00
Winner of the PEN/Jerard Award; a Chicago Tribune
and Christian Science Monitor Best Book; a Kiriyama
Prize Notable Book
¡YO!
“A novel of astonishing richness and magnanimity, a sophisticated work of art that is
also warmly accessible...brilliant.”—The San
Francisco Chronicle.
Plume 320pp. 978-0-452-27918-6 $15.00
LATINO LITERATURE
¡YO!
Spanish Language Edition
Plume 416 pp. 978-0-452-28140-0
$16.95
Julia Alvarez
EN EL TIEMPO DE LAS MARIPOSAS
(IN THE TIME OF BUTTERFLIES)
Spanish Translation by Rolando Costa Picazo
Plume 432pp. 978-0-452-28686-3 $16.00
HOMECOMING
New and Collected Poems
Plume 128 pp. 978-0-452-27567-6
$17.00
Ana Castillo
MASSACRE OF THE DREAMERS
Essays on Xicanisma
“Brilliant and powerfully written...testimony and
proof of a revolutionary consciousness signaling
change and real hope.”—Ms. “Engaging...the
author tells an important story and she tells it
with inventiveness and verve.”—The Washington
Post Book World.
Plume 256pp. 978-0-452-27424-2 $16.00
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TAN LEJOS DE DIO
Spanish Language Edition
Plume 320 pp. 978-0-452-28004-5
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