Tag: 3 stars

Walking Practice by Dolki Min addresses gender expectations others put on you and the lack of choice you have therein.

The Pachinko Parlor by Elisa Shua Dusapin shows how support for another person can manifest itself in different ways despite the apparent distance.

In The Piano Tuner by Chiang-Sheng Kuo, a love of music shines through a hard shell of loneliness and lost dreams.

From attacking a Pac-Man pizza moon with paper folded spaceships to bridging communication delays: Launch Something! by Korean author Bae Myung-hoon.

I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Se-hee is a collection of dialogues and essays about the author’s experiences with dealing with depression, anxiety and dysthymia.

In Endless Blue Sky by Lee Hyoseok, the Korean protagonists strive to be the 1940s equivalent of modern men and women, and look to the West for inspiration.

In Witches, Brenda Lozano explores the role of gender and culture in Mexico through a story about the lives, families, and strengths of a healer (curandera) and a journalist.

Where the Language Lives by Janet Yoder is about the life’s work of Vi Hilbert who saved the nearly dormant indigenous language Lushootseed.

In Night Picture of Rain Sound, Sue Ja Joo navigates the blurry line between fantasy and reality, witnessing and wit, passion and symbolism.

What would you change in the past to save the environment in the future? Will Saving Schrödinger’s Cat be enough? Find out in this book by Mark Jenkins.