Does anyone have any books/media to recommend on being an Asian in the USA / UK (and particularly being East or Southeast Asian)? Have just finished Big Little Man (Alex Tizon) and Severance (Ling Ma) both of which were excellent and captured a lot of complex feelings I hadn’t been able to put into words before...

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It’s been several years but I really enjoyed Bharati Mukherjee’s works, which are about Indian-American experience.

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Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong

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Native Speaker - Chang Rae Lee

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I’d like to thank everyone who’s contributed.

I have separately been recommended “Why are all the black kids sitting together in the Cafeteria?” by Beverly Daniel Tatum and that is very good as well.

Has anyone else had any joy with other books?

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