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As Asian Pacific American Heritage Month kicks off in May, AAPI Bay Area authors share books that inspired them.

Vanessa Hua April 29, 2021Updated: April 29, 2021, 7:11 am Chaney Kwak, author of the forthcoming “The Passenger: How a Travel Writer Learned to Love Cruises & Other Lies From a Sinking Ship.” Photo: Michael Baca Chaney Kwak’s great-grandmother had a saying that his grandmother passed on to him: “Water’s the strongest element of all.” “At least fire might leave ash. And I’ll take grandmother’s word for it: she nearly died at sea immigrating back from Japan to Korea, only to land just in time to see the destruction of the Korean War. She knew what she was talking...

Kathryn Scott, special to Colorado Politics Bernie Sanders campaign volunteer Drew Romano, 25, from Boulder erupts in cheers inside the Bernie Sanders Colorado Headquarters as Sanders is reported to have won the Colorado Democratic primary. Voters take to the polls and ballots are counted during the Super Tuesday primary on March 3, 2020 in Denver, Colorado. Colorado shares a Super Tuesday primary with 14 other states and territories. Kathryn Scott, Special to The Denver Gazette Ernest Luning, The Denver Gazette Kathryn Scott, Special to The Gazette Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post Pool

Copied! Sunday's 17-14 loss wasn't a different result than much of the season for Atlanta, but it continued to show that the Falcons won't back down from any challenge and can, in fact, rise to the occasion, even against the best. One thing is clear: The Falcons have not given up at all this season under interim head coach Raheem Morris. While there is only one game remaining left in the 2020 season, that fighting mentality is one the organization hopes will carry over into the future. It begins with the leadership in the locker room, and it manifested itself on the field on Sunday....

It was the year superlatives fell short. From a jam-packed January that opened in the midst of a presidential primary and plunged head-long into only the third impeachment trial in the nation's history, to February and its leap day, which couldn't explain why it felt like the month that would never end, until March arrived and time slowed to a glacial crawl — from the start, 2020 was all about jerking from one extreme to the next. "We’ve had a pandemic with the flu in 1918; we’ve had economic strife with the Great Recession and the Great Depression; we’ve had civil unrest ...