(Paperback)
By: Lora Lafayette
ISBN: 9781634059930
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
Publisher: Chin Music Press
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Possums Run Amok is arollicking, slyly hilarious, at times uncomfortable and dark memoir. With fearless candor, Lora Lafayette recounts her life from a delinquent, late 1970s punk rock adolescence through a crooked, manic, transatlantic path to adulthood and her eventual terrifying descent into schizophrenia, all the while trying to wrest as much wild joy as she can out of life.
(Paperback)
By: Tomer Inbar
ISBN: 9781634059831
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
Publisher: Chin Music Press
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Inbar's translations of Heian Era (794-1185) court songs highlight their earthy, erotic nature.
(Hardback)
By: Dean Wong
ISBN: 9781634059039
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2016
Publisher: Chin Music Press
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Wong captures four decades of Asian American life in West Coast Chinatowns. At turns poignant, heartbreaking, and uplifting.
(Paperback)
By: Shiro Kashiba
ISBN: 9780984457625
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2011
Publisher: Chin Music Press
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Shiro Kashiba sparked a food revolution by bringing sushi to Seattle. Today, his inspiration comes from the Pacific Northwest's bounty.
(Paperback)
By: Chagit Deitz
ISBN: 9781634050609
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
Publisher: Chin Music Press
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(Hardback)
By: Jamie Ford
ISBN: 9781634059756
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2020
Publisher: Chin Music Press
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An early immigrant's vision transforms swampland into a beloved public park. Essays, poems, and photographs celebrate Fujitaro Kubota's legacy.
(Paperback)
By: Sally Tyler
ISBN: 9781634050258
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: Chin Music Press
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Fledgling democracy and human rights movements challenge autocrats throughout Asia. What role will the US play in the region in a post-Trump world
(Paperback)
By: Christina Erteszek
ISBN: 9781634050173
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: Chin Music Press
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A daughter recounts how her parents fled war-torn Europe for the US and built the popular Olga brand.
(Hardback)
By: Bob Santos
ISBN: 9781634059527
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
Publisher: Chin Music Press
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Seattle's Gang of Four civil rights activists brought four ethnic groups together in the 1960s to advocate for minority rights.
(Paperback)
By: Cho Chongnae
ISBN: 9781634059107
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
Publisher: Chin Music Press
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This muckraking novel by one of Korea's greatest living writers portrays China at the dawn of its global economic dominance.
(Paperback)
By: Deborah Sanwal
ISBN: 9781634050043
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: Chin Music Press
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Sanwal learned the secrets of Punjabi cuisine in her mother-in-law's kitchen. She reveals those secrets in easy-to-follow prose and recipes.
(Paperback)
By: Elizabeth Sanders
ISBN: 9781634059015
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2015
Publisher: Chin Music Press
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Middle-aged Walter Doucet returns to Vacherie, Louisiana, and his low-country roots to build the familys last competing Christmas Eve bonfire.
(Paperback)
By: Nathan Vass
ISBN: 9781634050159
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
Publisher: Chin Music Press
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Thirty stories and 32 photos chronicle life on Seattle's No. 7 bus during the graveyard shift.
(Paperback)
By: Bette Alexander
ISBN: 9781634050401
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: Chin Music Press
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(Hardback)
By: Annie Connole
ISBN: 9781634050180
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher: Chin Music Press
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The Spring is a book-length lyric essay that examines grief and transformation through the lens of mystical animal appearances following the death of the narrators partner.
(Paperback)
By: Carla Crujido
ISBN: 9781634050531
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
Publisher: Chin Music Press
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(Paperback)
By: Jay Rubin
ISBN: 9781634059503
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
Publisher: Chin Music Press
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This poignant novel depicts a Japanese woman and her American son buffeted by the traumatic events surrounding World War II.
(Paperback)
By: Merna Ann Hecht
ISBN: 9781634050425
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
Publisher: Chin Music Press
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(Paperback)
By: Frances McCue
ISBN: 9781634059121
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Chin Music Press
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Haunt the halls of a demolished writers' house. Punch through the "timber curtains" that cover clear-cuts, gentrification, and bereavement.
(Paperback)
By: Leanne Dunic
ISBN: 9781634059657
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Chin Music Press
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A novel in 94 micro-chapters whose poetic prose tosses between contemporary Singapore and post-Tohoku Japan, collapsing intimate and seismic desolation.
(Hardback)
By: David Beall
ISBN: 9781634050234
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2022
Publisher: Chin Music Press
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Tsukiji was one of the world's most dynamic fish markets. Beall captures that dynamism in photographs chronicling Tsukiji's final years.
(Paperback)
By: Alex Gallo-Brown
ISBN: 9781634059770
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
Publisher: Chin Music Press
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Labor activist Gallo-Brown explores through poetry, essays, and fiction what it means to work in the US today.
(Paperback)
By: Merna Ann Hecht
ISBN: 9781634050203
Readership/Audience: Young Adult
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: Chin Music Press
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Immigrant and refugee high-school students use poetry to examine the trauma they have been through in this remarkable collection of poems and self-portraits.
(Paperback)
By: Madeline Crowley
ISBN: 9781634059787
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
Publisher: Chin Music Press
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Crowley interviews residents of one of Seattle's most culturally vibrant and racially diverse neighborhoods, now beset with rampant gentrification.
