CRRL Read-Alikes: Jamie Ford's Work and Other Novels Featuring Chinese HeritageLike this list

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• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

  a Novel

  Ford, Jamie

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  Henry Lee, a Chinese American living in 1980s Seattle, recalls the trials of life in America during WWII, living with his difficult father, and, later, his own son.

• Songs of Willow Frost

  a Novel

  Ford, Jamie

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  Twelve-year-old William Eng, a Chinese American boy living in a Seattle orphanage, sets out on a journey to find his mother, Willow Frost, a film star with secrets of her own.

• The Bonesetter's Daughter

  Tan, Amy

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  A young woman living in San Francisco sets out to find the truth behind her Chinese mother's upbringing.

• China Dolls

  a Novel

  See, Lisa

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  In this historical novel, three young girls (two of whom are Chinese American, the other Japanese) try out for the same exclusive nightclub, The Forbidden City, in San Francisco. When Pearl Harbor is attacked, everything changes quickly, and all…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Girl in Translation

  Kwok, Jean

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  Kimberly Chang moves to Brooklyn with her mother. Both have newly emigrated from Hong Kong. Kimberly is leading a double life: school girl during the day and sweatshop worker at night. Dreaming of a better education, she must learn how to cope with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Girl Who Wrote in Silk

  Estes, Kelli

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  Inara Erickson inherits a tropical estate from her deceased aunt and plans to turn it into a posh hotel. When she discovers a hand-sewn silk sleeve hidden under the staircase in the main house, she works with Asian history professor Daniel Chin to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Joy Luck Club

  Tan, Amy

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  In the late 1940s, four Chinese women begin meeting in San Francisco in what they call the "Joy Luck Club" to play mah jong, watch the stock market, read, and tell fantastic stories. Their relationship spans three generations, to include children…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Kinfolk

  Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973

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  Dr. Liang moves himself and his family from China to New York to start a better life. But his children are desperate to go back to the country they call home. Throughout the novel, the differences between Western and Eastern cultures are widely…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Love and Other Consolation Prizes

  a Novel

  Ford, Jamie

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  Set during the 1909 Alaska Yukon Pacific Expo (commonly known as the Seattle World's Fair), this novel follows the life of Ernest, a young half-Chinese orphan, and his journey to find a family of his own.

• Mambo in Chinatown

  Kwok, Jean

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  Charlie Wong, a young Chinese American and the daughter of a professional ballerina and noodle maker, struggles with maintaining her Asian roots and pursuing her ultimate dream: becoming a ballroom dancer.

• The Many Daughters of Afong Moy

  a Novel

  Ford, Jamie

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  Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Seattle's former poet laureate, that's how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental breakdowns into her art. But when her five-year-old daughter, Annabel, exhibits the same…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Spring Moon

  a Novel of China

  Lord, Bette

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  Within the prestigious House of Chang, daughter Spring Moon is born into a life of luxury. But as modern changes rock her life, Spring Moon must fight to sustain her honor for the future of her household.

• The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane

  a Novel

  See, Lisa

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  Li-Yan lives in the tiny mountain village of Yunnan, where a rare tea leaf is grown. When she has a child out of wedlock, her infant daughter is sent to a coastal California town to be raised by Caucasian parents. Li-Yan tries to come to grips with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Valley of Amazement

  Tan, Amy

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  Violet Minturn is a half Chinese/half American "lady of the night" living in Shanghai, struggling with her self-image and job choice. Meanwhile, her mother struggles to deal with the choices her daughter has made and the men she surrounds herself…Read moreRead more of this annotation