American Chica
Two Worlds, One Childhood
Written by Marie Arana

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2002
Price: $14.00
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-385-31963-8 (0-385-31963-0)

***2001 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NOMINEE - NON-FICTION***

***LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOKS OF 2001 - NON-FICTION***

Now in Paperback.

Written in the tradition of Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez, this is an informative and resonant portrait of a child coming to terms with her bicultural identity. American Chica explores the issues and difficulties that... Read more >

Brother, I'm Dying

Written by Edwidge Danticat

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $23.95
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4115-2 (1-4000-4115-5)

From the best-selling author of The Dew Breaker, a major work of nonfiction: a powerfully moving family story that centers around the men closest to her heart—her father, Mira, and his older brother, Joseph.

From the age of four, Edwidge Danticat came to think of her uncle Joseph, a charismatic pastor, as... Read more >

Burnt Bread and Chutney
Growing Up Between Cultures - A Memoir of an Indian Jewish Childhood
Written by Carmit Delman

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2003
Price: $13.95
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
ISBN: 978-0-345-44594-0 (0-345-44594-5)

**Named by School Library Journal as one of the Best Adult Books for High School Students, 2003

Contributing her own unique story to the growing genre of bi-cultural narratives (which includes Marie Arana’s critically-acclaimed American Chica) Carmit Delman has written a coming-of-age memoir that explores the life of an Indian Jewish girl... Read more >

Colors of the Mountain

Written by Da Chen

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2001
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 978-0-385-72060-1 (0-385-72060-2)

"I was born in southern China in 1962, in the tiny town of Yellow Stone. They called it the Year of Great Starvation."

In 1962, as millions of Chinese citizens were gripped by Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution and the Red Guards enforced a brutal regime of communism, a boy was born to... Read more >

The Complete Persepolis
Now a Major Motion Picture
Written by Marjane Satrapi

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2007
Price: $24.95
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 978-0-375-71483-2 (0-375-71483-9)

Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed memoir-in-comic-strips.

Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private life and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval; of her... Read more >

Covering
The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights
Written by Kenji Yoshino

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: February 20, 2007
Price: $15.95
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 978-0-375-76021-1 (0-375-76021-0)

Winner, 2006 American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Award
Winner, 2006 Myers Outstanding Book Award
2009 First Year Reading Selection for Pomona College


In this remarkable and elegant work, acclaimed Yale Law School professor Kenji Yoshino fuses legal manifesto and poetic memoir to call for a redefinition of civil rights in our law... Read more >

Funny in Farsi
A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
Written by Firoozeh Dumas

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 13, 2004
Price: $14.00
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6837-8 (0-8129-6837-9)

Winner, 2008 Spirit of America Award (National Council for the Social Studies)
Finalist, Thurber Prize for American Humor
Finalist, PEN/USA Award in Creative Non-Fiction
Finalist: Audie Award for best recording of a memoir, 2005

Selected for Common Reading
Albuquerque Academy's Year-long Project
Gallaudet University
Salisbury University, Maryland
University of Wisconsin, Madison
University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
Cal State University, Sacramento
Cal State... Read more >

The Gangster We Are All Looking For

Written by Thi Diem Thuy Le

Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: May 11, 2004
Price: $13.95
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 978-0-375-70002-6 (0-375-70002-1)

A momentous literary debut: the life of a Vietnamese family in America luminously observed through the knowing eyes of a child.

In 1978 six refugees—a girl, her father, and four “uncles”—are pulled from the sea to begin a new life in San Diego. In the child’s imagination, the world of itchy... Read more >

I Saw Ramallah

Written by Mourid Barghouti
Translated by Ahdaf Soueif
Introduction by Edward W. Said

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: May 13, 2003
Price: $12.95
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3266-2 (1-4000-3266-0)

Barred from his homeland after 1967’s Six-Day War, the poet Mourid Barghouti spent thirty years in exile—shuttling among the world’s cities, yet secure in none of them; separated from his family for years at a time; never certain whether he was a visitor, a refugee, a citizen, or a guest. As... Read more >

Iran Awakening
One Woman's Journey to Reclaim Her Life and Country
Written by Shirin Ebadi and Azadeh Moaveni

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $14.95
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7528-4 (0-8129-7528-6)

The moving, inspiring memoir of one of the great women of our times, Shirin Ebadi, winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize and advocate for the oppressed, whose spirit has remained strong in the face of political persecution and despite the challenges she has faced raising a family while pursuing her... Read more >

Journey from the Land of No
A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran
Written by Roya Hakakian

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: June 28, 2005
Price: $13.00
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
ISBN: 978-0-609-81030-9 (0-609-81030-8)

"Journey From the Land of No is an immensely moving, extraordinarily eloquent, and passionate memoir. Its author begins what one may prophesy as a major literary career."
—Harold Bloom

This is an elegantly written memoir of a young Iranian-American poet and journalist about growing up in Iran during the revolution.

Roya Hakakian was raised... Read more >

The Language of Baklava

Written by Diana Abu-Jaber

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: March 14, 2006
Price: $14.95
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7776-2 (1-4000-7776-1)

From the acclaimed author of Crescent, called “radiant, wise, and passionate” by the Chicago Tribune, here is a vibrant, humorous memoir of growing up with a gregarious Jordanian father who loved to cook. Diana Abu-Jaber weaves the story of her life in upstate New York and in Jordan around vividly remembered... Read more >

Mixed
My Life in Black and White
Written by Angela Nissel

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 30, 2006
Price: $12.95
Publisher: Villard
ISBN: 978-0-345-48114-6 (0-345-48114-3)

“Love has no color,” insist Angela Nissel’s parents, but does it have a clue? In this candid, funny, and poignant memoir, Angela recounts growing up biracial in Philadelphia–moving back and forth between black inner-city schools and white prep schools–where her racial ambiguity and doomed attempts to blend in dog her teen... Read more >

Reading Lolita in Tehran
A Memoir in Books
Written by Azar Nafisi

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2003
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7106-4 (0-8129-7106-X)

Winner, 2004 Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Non-Fiction

"This book transcends categorization of memoir, literary criticism or social history, though it is superb in all three."
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to... Read more >

Unbowed
A Memoir
Written by Wangari Maathai

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 978-0-307-27520-2 (0-307-27520-5)

In Unbowed, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai recounts her extraordinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage. When Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, she began a vital poor people’s environmental movement, focused on the empowerment of women, that soon spread across Africa. Persevering through... Read more >

The Woman Warrior
Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Written by Maxine Hong Kingston

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: April 23, 1989
Price: $13.95
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-0-679-72188-8 (0-679-72188-6)

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Non-fiction

“A book of fierce clarity and originality” (Newsweek), Maxine Hong Kingston’s autobiography tells of her early life in California and the cultural confusion she experienced as the daughter of Chinese immigrants.

“A remarkable book. . . . As... Read more >