Asian American Memoirs

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Helena Rho
    • Narrated by: Helena Rho
    • Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • She was everything everyone else wanted her to be. Until she followed her own path....

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    • An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents
    • By: Jimmy O. Yang, Mike Judge - foreword
    • Narrated by: Jimmy O. Yang, Mike Judge
    • Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,350 ratings
    • Jimmy O. Yang is a stand-up comedian, film and TV actor and fan favorite as the character Jian Yang from the popular HBO series Silicon Valley....

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    • A Hmong Family Memoir
    • By: Kao Kalia Yang
    • Narrated by: Kao Kalia Yang
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-17-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 278 ratings
    • In the 70s and 80s, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand and onward to the United States....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Connie Chung
    • Narrated by: Connie Chung
    • Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 137 ratings
    • In a sharp, witty, and definitive memoir like no other, iconic trailblazer and legendary journalist Connie Chung delves into her storied career as the first Asian woman to break into an overwhelmingly white, male-dominated television news industry.

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    • An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
    • By: Patrick Radden Keefe
    • Narrated by: Feodor Chin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 07-24-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 351 ratings
    • A mesmerizing narrative about the rise and fall of an unlikely international crime boss....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Nicole Chung
    • Narrated by: Janet Song
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 466 ratings
    • Nicole Chung tells of her search for the people who gave her up, which coincided with the birth of her own child. All You Can Ever Know is a profound, moving chronicle of surprising connections and the repercussions of unearthing painful family secrets....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Hua Hsu
    • Narrated by: Hua Hsu
    • Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 501 ratings
    • New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu shares a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art.

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    • One Family's Story of America's Japanese Internment
    • By: Kimi Cunningham Grant
    • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
    • Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 12-30-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 401 ratings
    • Kimi’s Obaachan, her grandmother, had always been a silent presence throughout her youth.....

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    • Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life
    • By: Ali Wong
    • Narrated by: Ali Wong, Justin Hakuta
    • Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7,515 ratings
    • In her hit Netflix comedy special Baby Cobra, an eight-month pregnant Ali Wong resonated so strongly that she even became a popular Halloween costume....

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    • An Asian American Story of Love, Marriage, Motherhood, and Running a Billion Dollar Empire
    • By: Loida Lewis, Blair S. Walker
    • Narrated by: Loida Lewis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • A fascinating and engaging memoir from one of America's leading female executives, Why Should Guys Have All the Fun? is an inspiring and uplifting true story of how an ordinary person can rise to achieve extraordinary things.

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    • The Daring Escape of American POWs from a Japanese Death Camp
    • By: Stephen L. Moore
    • Narrated by: Tim Campbell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • As Good as Dead is one of the greatest escape stories of World War II. Endurance, determination, and courage in the face of death make this a gripping and inspiring saga of survival....

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    • By: Brendan I. Koerner
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • An epic saga of hubris, cruelty, and redemption, Now the Hell Will Start tells the remarkable tale of the greatest manhunt of WWII. Herman Perry, besieged by the hardships of the Indo-Burmese jungle and the racism meted out by his White commanding officers, found solace in opium....

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    • Growing Up Asian in Black and White America
    • By: Julia Lee
    • Narrated by: Julia Lee
    • Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • Biting the Hand is author Julia Lee's passionate, no-holds-barred memoir about the Asian American experience in a nation defined by racial stratification....

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    • The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights
    • By: Kenji Yoshino
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • Everyone covers. To cover is to downplay a disfavored trait so as to blend into the mainstream. Because all of us possess stigmatized attributes, we all encounter pressure to cover....

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    • An Asian American Reckoning
    • By: Cathy Park Hong
    • Narrated by: Cathy Park Hong
    • Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,192 ratings
    • Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America. Part memoir and part cultural criticism, this collection is vulnerable, humorous, and provocative....

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    • By: Amy Chua
    • Narrated by: Amy Chua
    • Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,627 ratings
    • At once provocative and laugh-out-loud funny, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother ignited a global parenting debate with its story of one mother’s journey in strict parenting....

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    • Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road
    • By: Rob Schmitz
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • Modern Shanghai: a global city in the midst of a renaissance, where dreamers arrive each day to partake in a mad torrent of capital, ideas, and opportunity....

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    • Chronicles of an All-American Combo
    • By: Jo Koy
    • Narrated by: Jo Koy
    • Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,844 ratings
    • A stunning, hilarious memoir displaying Koy’s “wide-ranging comedic talent and abundant wells of perseverance”, Mixed Plate illuminates the burning drive and unique humor that make Jo Koy one of today’s most successful comedians....

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    • An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor
    • By: Steve Kemper
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • A gripping, behind-the-scenes account of the personalities and contending forces in Tokyo during the volatile decade that led to World War II, as seen through the eyes of the American ambassador who attempted to stop the slide to war....

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