On this episode, we highlight the latest book and publishing news in Asian American literature for our August 2021 mid-month check-in! 

New books mentioned in our publishing news:

Julia Vee & Ken Bebelle – Ebony Gate
C.B. Lee – A Coffeeshop in an Alternate Universe
Alice Lin – Fireworks
Trang Thanh Tran – She Is a Haunting
Susie Lee Jin – Not an Egg; Not a Pumpkin;and Not a Heart
Tara Sim – We Shall Be Monsters
Diana Ma – Extracurricular
Joanna Ho – The Wave Riders; Say My Name
Christine Mari – Kokoro
Elsie Chapman – Kokoro
Tadaaki Imaizumi & Takashi Maruyama – Why We Went Extinct
Ream Shukairy – The Next New Syrian Girl
Livia Blackburne –Nainai’s Mountain 
Saadia Faruqi –Rani
Margaret Chiu Greanias – Hooked on Books
Emery Lee – Café Con Lychee
Catherine Yu – Direwood
Hope Lim – At the Window
Raakhee Mirchandani – My Diwali Light; Mama’s Roti

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On this episode, we chat with author Andrea Wang about her new middle grade novel The Many Meaning of Meilan,a coming of age story about a Chinese American girl who finds strength in the many meanings of her name as she struggles to adjust to moving from Boston’s Chinatown to a small town in Ohio. We chat with Andrea about her journey to becoming a childen’s book author and her inspirations for writing her novel. We also share some of our own experiences with our uncommon Asian names.

Follow Andrea on IG at @andreawhywang and check out his book The Many Meanings of Meilan at your local bookseller!

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