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Oxford Soju Club (2025)
Jinwoo Park
"Oxford Soju Club glitters with ferocious intelligence and propulsive action, as it is both a fast-paced spy-thriller and disarming exploration of the Korean diaspora. With bold confidence, Park offers readers a fresh and cerebral perspective that explores the existential and physical unmooring of three very disparate characters. Asian diasporic literature is often reduced to stereotypes, tropes, and trauma, but Park skillfully reinvents the genre, with his masterful storytelling and meticulous prose. The novel's themes are certainly dark, but this is a highly original and page-turning tale that grapples with the thornier aspects of identity, loyalty, duty, patriotism, and survival in perilous times."
Sunshine Nails (2023)
Mai Nguyen
"ike a fresh set of diamond-encrusted gel nails, Nguyen truly sparkles in this hilarious, poignant and utterly engrossing comedy of Vietnamese diaspora, gentrification, class, race, and the millennial pressures of finding oneself among overbearing family members. The immigrant story is usually stoic and filled with suffering, but here, a new kind of Asian-Canadian narrative comes to light, one that is so fundamentally joyful and human, it will make you laugh out loud and cry simultaneously. With an abundance of wit, heart, and cleverness, Nguyen explores the complex realities of kinship and belonging faced by Asian immigrants. I loved it."
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