Asian American Memoirs

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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 1,626 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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    • 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 3,347 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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    • The Life of Ruth Asawa
    • By: Marilyn Chase
    • Narrated by: Cindy Kay
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • This is the story of a woman who wielded imagination and hope in the face of intolerance and who transformed everything she touched into art. In this compelling biography, author Marilyn Chase brings Ruth Asawa's story to vivid life....

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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 86 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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    • 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 465 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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    • 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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    • 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 496 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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    • The Untold Story of Vice, Money, and Murder in New York's Chinatown
    • By: Scott D. Seligman
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • Nothing had worked. Not threats or negotiations, not shutting down the betting parlors or opium dens, not throwing Chinese offenders into prison. Not even executing them....

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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 88 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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    • 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 7,509 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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    • In Search of My Family's Past Among Taiwan's Mountains and Coasts
    • By: Jessica J. Lee
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • An exhilarating, anti-colonial reclamation of nature writing and memoir, rooted in the forests and flatlands of Taiwan....

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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 349 ratings
    • A mesmerizing narrative about the rise and fall of an unlikely international crime boss....

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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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    • 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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    • 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 1,193 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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    • 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 1,838 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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