Booklist’s guide to East Asian and East Asian American historical fiction
Since the start of the pandemic, the US has seen a sharp rise in harassment and violence directed at Asian Americans. Despite a North American presence older than the nation itself (Filipino sailors landed in California in the 16th century) and centuries of contributions that have shaped daily American life railroads, agriculture, technology, books Americans of Asian descent continue to be attacked for being foreign, for being “other.” The high-profile Atlanta murders in March of eight people, including six women of Asian descent, resulted in greater awareness and growing support of Asian and Pacific American communities, but anti-Asian hate crimes continue to escalate, including thousands more attacks that remain unreported.
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Librarian’s Library columnist Araceli Méndez Hintermeister writes: “The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the ways in which librarians do their jobs from everyday tasks to community outreach and beyond. These books offer a variety of resources to help adjust to our new reality.” 3h
Paula Munier writes: “When I set out to write my first mystery, I knew two things: 1) There would be dogs my admittedly lofty ambition was to be ‘Julia Spencer-Fleming with dogs’; and 2) The dogs would
not be golden retrievers. Why not? Because everyone writes about golden retrievers.” 3h
US Rep. John Joyce (R-Pa.) introduced a new initiative that he says would safeguard access to historical literature from “cancel culture.” The Guarding Readers’ Independence and Choice (GRINCH) Act would “prohibit taxpayer dollars from funding bureaucrats’ attempts to censor children’s literature and determine what our kids are permitted to read,” Joyce said in a statement on his