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Alexis Burling April 25, 2021Updated: April 25, 2021, 8:06 pm Countless generations of Asians and Pacific Islanders have immigrated to America, enriched its culture and history, and helped make the country what it is today. Their stories are invaluable. In celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, here are three promising debuts from Asian American writers, coming out in May. ‘Swimming Back to Trout River’ By Linda Rui Feng “Swimming Back to Trout River” by Lind...

NW Vietnamese News April 25, 2021 Book Cover Beyond the fact his parents fled Vietnam in the 1980s as boat people, Eric Nguyen knows very little about who they were or what they lived through before he was born. “They always had their eye on the future,” the 33-year-old author said in a recent phone call from his home in Washington, D.C. “There’s a lot they haven’t told me.” Like so many others in his generation, Nguyen has never pressed his family hard for answers. Not only did he ...

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez review – a South American Shirley Jackson In one story, Rambla Triste, ‘Barcelona attracts hipster Argentinians and then holds them sinisterly captive’. Photograph: Jordi Boixareu/Zuma Wire/Rex/Shutterstock In one story, Rambla Triste, ‘Barcelona attracts hipster Argentinians and then holds them sinisterly captive’. Photograph: Jordi Boixareu/Zuma Wire/Rex/Shutterstock Pushy demons, spirits and dead babies haunt a jet...

ONTD Reading Challenge Around the World [FEBRUARY - ARGENTINA] Hello, everyone! I hope you enjoyed getting into South Korean books in January! Let us know in the comments what you read and if you liked it. Now February is upon us and our country of the month is Argentina! We’ll explore Argentinian literature, one of the very best Latin America has to offer. You can choose one of the modern classics like Jorge Luis Borges or Julio Cortázar, or perhaps discover new and rule-breaking works ...

The First Lady OSCAR NOMINEE MICHELLE PFEIFFER JOINS OSCAR WINNER VIOLA DAVIS IN THE FIRST LADY (w/t) FOR SHOWTIME OSCAR WINNER SUSANNE BIER TO DIRECT ALL EPISODES Anthology Series To Star Pfeiffer as Betty Ford, With Davis Executive Producing via JuVee Productions and Starring as Michelle Obama Oscar Winner Cathy Schulman To Executive Produce; Created by Aaron Cooley LOS ANGELES – January 21, 2021 – SHOWTIME has announced that Oscar and Emmy® nominee a...

Michelle Pfeiffer to Play Betty Ford in The First Lady Home » Michelle Pfeiffer to Play Betty Ford in The First Lady French Exit) will star as Betty Ford and Oscar, Emmy and Golden Globe winner Susanne Bier ( The Undoing) will direct and executive produce the anthology series The First Lady. Michelle Pfeiffer is joining Oscar, Emmy and Tony winner Viola Davis ( Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom), who will play former first lady Michelle Obama and will executive produce. The First Lady is a revelator...

January 19, 2021 Jehovah’s Witnesses drive by in SUVs, creeping up and down my block all weekend. I hide behind the blinds, doing them a favor; I’m an apostate, dangerous to their faith. A single word from my mouth could poison their minds and jeopardize their chances of living forever in the new system. It turns out they don’t care if anyone’s home—they ring anyway. I open the door to an adult and a teen asking me if I know who they are. Do they know who I am? Can they see the mark...

Jehovah’s Witnesses drive by in SUVs, creeping up and down my block all weekend. I hide behind the blinds, doing them a favor; I’m an apostate, dangerous to their faith. A single word from my mouth could poison their minds and jeopardize their chances of living forever in the new system. It turns out they don’t care if anyone’s home—they ring anyway. I open the door to an adult and a teen asking me if I know who they are. Do they know who I am? Can they see the mark of the beast on ...

Audrey Lane, the headstrong young heroine of Wedderburn’s high-powered follow-up to The Milk Chicken Bomb is obsessed with everything about the open road. At 20, Audrey gets her dream job driving a truck around the oil fields not far from Calgary, Alberta. Shortly after, she impulsively runs away from the job and the camp where she’s been staying, and ends up in a gritty Edmonton bar. She talks her way into a job as the driver for a bar band called the Lever Men, with none of them sober en...