Qian Julie Wang🔸王乾 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Qian Julie Wang is a writer and civil rights lawyer. ex-undocu; ex-biglaw • managing partner, Gottlieb & Wang LLP • author, BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY • 🎤 rep @hwaspeakers • Yale Law alum but prouder of my bad jokes here

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith
😭 this is such high praise. A Tree Grows In Brooklyn was a guiding light for me growing up. I must have read it at least 6 times https://twitter.com/bsaunders/status/1475634184634859522
Paperback, 2005
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Sea Change
Gina Chung
so honored to be on the Today Show to recommend some spring reads! don’t miss: SEA CHANGE by @ginathechung DYSCALCULIA by @CAMONGHNE THE GREAT RECLAMATION by @rachelhengqp these page turners will stay with you & claim a piece of your heart. https://t.co/IPmKDKJEFI
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
You Are Here: Connecting Flights
Ellen Oh
A chain of several connected stories... about Asian American identity, belonging, and courage... powerfully told through the insights of twelve powerhouse authors.
Paperback, 2024
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Rouge Street
Shuang Xuetao
ROUGE STREET: THREE NOVELLAS, by Shang XueTao, one of China’s most celebrated young writers, three dazzling novellas of Northeast China, mixing realism, mysticism, and noir and examining the unseen pains of those left behind by the recent economic boom https://t.co/oUvKXxfbCb
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Acceptance: A Memoir
Emi Nietfeld
happy pub day to @eminietfeld, whose memoir ACCEPTANCE was named a best book of August by Apple Books and Amazon, and deemed “remarkable” in a rave review from NYT. join us for her launch event at @POWERHOUSEArena at 7 pm: https://t.co/qhOg3HU6Tm
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Stranger Things: Zombie Boys (Graphic Novel)
Greg Pak
so very honored that Natalia Dyer of Stranger Things has chosen my book for @bookofthemonth: “Wang, with her honest and compelling prose, … invites you into the vulnerable intimacies of her upbringing. [U]nforgettable … and powerful.” Full review: https://bit.ly/3kaV1gf https://t.co/HS8D8Xzwl6
Paperback, 2020
$12.99$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
House of Sticks: A Memoir
Ly Tran
Ly Tran, her parents, and her three older brothers arrived in Ridgewood, Queens as refugees from Vietnam just a year before my mother and I arrived in the same city...the similarities had me crying, raging, torn as i sunk into her often poetic words.
Paperback, 2022
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Beautiful Country: A Read with Jenna Pick: A Memoir of an Undocumented Childhood
Qian Julie Wang
“Beautiful Country is destined to be a classic. ... The writing was so cinematic that I could lose myself in her narrative for hours ... Qian Julie Wang redefines what it means to be 'American.'" So very honored by this recent review: http://shorturl.at/flAIM
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Duet for Home
Karina Yan Glaser
A powerful, uplifting book about tweens in a South Bronx family shelter.
Paperback, 2023
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
Alice Wong
At once a celebration of Alice's love of art, food, and pop culture and a challenge to dismantle the systemic ableism that pervades our society, 'Year of the Tiger' is both inspirational and fun.
Paperback, 2022
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book