Megan Klein-Hewett, Ames Public Library
Special to the Ames Tribune
Each May the library honors Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Heritage months provide us with an opportunity to reflect on our own cultural experiences or learn from experiences that are unlike our own. Here are some great books to help you view different e Asian American experience through literature. Take some time this month to explore the world through these titles!
You are probably familiar with Celeste Ng, author of “Little Fires Everywhere,” but you may not have read her debut novel, “Everything I Never Told You.” Set in the 1970s in small-town Ohio, the novel follows a Chinese American family whose favorite daughter, Lydia, has recently died. “Everything I Never Told You” explores cultural divisions, and the ways in which families struggle to understand one another.
Four graphic novels that illuminate anti-Asian racism through personal experience
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(This is the second in a series of articles produced in partnership with journalists from Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle in collaboration with the nonprofit Solutions Journalism Network.)
By ANNAKAI HAYAKAWA GESHLIDER
Part II
Part I introduced the Lit Club program. Part II, below, covers the impact of the recent COVID outbreak at the Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) on the Lit Club, as well as background on the Asian Prisoner Support Committee’s ROOTS program.
In August 2020, the Oakland-based Asian Prisoner Support Committee (APSC) kicked off its Lit Club program at three women’s prisons in California. In the Lit Club, nine partner pairs each with one person in prison and one APSC volunteer choose from a list of books to read together, and then discuss the book via email.