A Year of the Tiger Booklist
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Forthcoming, autumn 2022: Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life is a memoir by Alice Wong, founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project. She writes about her mission to find and cultivate a community that fights for disability justice.
Rock Paper Tiger is Lisa Brackmann’s thrilling debut novel centering around Ellie Cooper, a brassy, no-nonsense, U.S. Army vet who finds herself in Beijing entangled in a high-stakes game of crime and betrayal—both real and virtual.
To Kill a Tiger by Jid Lee recounts the author’s girlhood in South Korea at a time when relations between North and South were particularly tenuous. While portraying five generations of her family’s women, Lee interweaves folklore and modern Korean history.
A Tiger’s Heart: The Story of a Modern Chinese Woman by Aisling Juanjuan Shen follows the author’s tumultuous path from rural poverty to more prosperous career opportunities in southern China and shines a light on China’s rapid modernization. Shen becomes the first in her village to go to college, gaining admittance into Wellesley.
A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan. After years as a fashion writer in New York, the thirty-something Singapore native returns home determined to learn to cook her city’s cuisine. She discovers great recipes, which she shares with the reader, as well as haunting family secrets that make it into a thrilling story that goes beyond a typical food memoir.
The Tiger’s Wife, a New York Times bestselling novel by Teá Obreht, is set in an unnamed post-war Balkan country where Natalia, a young doctor, tries to understand the mysterious circumstances of her grandfather’s sudden disappearance and death. While searching for clues, she recalls the stories he used to regale her with, but the key to his disappearance may lie in the one story he never told.
The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo brings to life 1930s Malaya. The mystery of a severed finger puts its two main characters on a magical realist adventure. Alternating chapters feature Ren, an orphan whose elderly relative instructs him to find his missing finger, and Ji, the dancehall girl who unwittingly stole it.
The Tiger Mom’s Tale by Lyn Liao Butler is a novel about identity, family, and unraveled secrets. When Lexa’s estranged father dies in Taiwan, she leaves her cushy life in New York to come face to face with her father’s side of the family in Taipei.
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