Asian American Memoirs

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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: 17-06-11
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 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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    • Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors
    • By: Daniel Tudor, James Pearson
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent dictatorship led by a single family, which relentlessly pursues the development of nuclear arms....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Connie Chung
    • Narrated by: Connie Chung
    • Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 17-09-24
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History
    • By: Yunte Huang
    • Narrated by: Alfred Gingold
    • Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 27-06-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Yunte Huang ingeniously traces Charlie Chan from his real beginnings as a bullwhip-wielding detective in territorial Hawaii to his reinvention as a literary sleuth and Hollywood film icon....

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    • The Life of Ruth Asawa
    • By: Marilyn Chase
    • Narrated by: Cindy Kay
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-22
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • An Asian American Story of Love, Marriage, Motherhood, and Running a Billion Dollar Empire
    • By: Loida Lewis, Blair S. Walker
    • Narrated by: Loida Lewis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 26-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A fascinating and engaging memoir from one of America's leading female executives, Why Should Guys Have All the Fun? is an inspiring and uplifting true story of how an ordinary person can rise to achieve extraordinary things.

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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: 13-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 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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    • A Memoir
    • By: Helena Rho
    • Narrated by: Helena Rho
    • Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • She was everything everyone else wanted her to be. Until she followed her own path....

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    • The Making of a Rogue Ballerina
    • By: Georgina Pazcoguin
    • Narrated by: Georgina Pazcoguin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 14-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In this love letter to the art of dance and the sport that has been her livelihood, NYCB’s first Asian American female soloist Georgina Pazcoguin lays bare her unfiltered story of leaving small-town Pennsylvania for New York City...

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    • An Immigrant Daughter's Story
    • By: Mazie K. Hirono
    • Narrated by: Mazie K. Hirono
    • Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 20-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The intimate and inspiring life story of Mazie Hirono, the first Asian-American woman and the only immigrant serving in the U.S. Senate....

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    • A Vision of a Muslim Future
    • By: Haroon Moghul
    • Narrated by: Haroon Moghul
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Islam is often associated with and limited to the worst of the world—extremism, obscurantism, misogyny, bigotry. So why would so many people associate with such a fundamentalist faith? Two Billion Caliphs advocates for a way of being Muslim in the world....

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    • The Rise of the Indian-American Elite and the Fall of the Galleon Hedge Fund
    • By: Anita Raghavan
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-13
    • Language: English
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    • Just as WASPs, Irish-Catholics, and Our Crowd Jews once made the ascent from immigrants to powerbrokers, it is now the Indian-American's turn....

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    • Losing Religion and Finding Myself at an Evangelical University
    • By: R. Scott Okamoto
    • Narrated by: R. Scott Okamoto
    • Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-23
    • Language: English
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    • R. Scott Okamoto had no idea that his job as an English teacher at an evangelical Christian college meant facing bigotry as an Asian American and faux intellectualism as a teacher—and what it would mean for his own journey....

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    • Memoirs of a Red Guard
    • By: Fan Shen
    • Narrated by: Kirk Winkler
    • Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 20-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In 1966 Fan Shen, a newly minted Red Guard, plunged happily into China's Cultural Revolution....

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    • A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family
    • By: Erika Hayasaki
    • Narrated by: VyVy Nguyen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-22
    • Language: English
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    • Identical twins Isabella and Hà were born in Vietnam and raised on opposite sides of the world, each knowing little about the other’s existence, until they were reunited as teenagers, against all odds....

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    • Reclaiming My Roots as an Asian-American
    • By: David K. Tian
    • Narrated by: Mark Davis
    • Length: 34 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Asian Americans have often been described as the "model minority", a stereotype that unfairly characterizes a diverse group of people's experiences as one monolithic experience....

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    • A Memoir of Loss, Myth, and Magic
    • By: Alexandra A. Chan
    • Narrated by: Rachel Yong
    • Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 27-08-24
    • Language: English
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    • Alexandra Chan thinks she has life figured out until, in the Year of the Ram, the death of her father—her last parent—brings her to her knees, an event seemingly foretold in Chinese mythology.

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    • How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family
    • By: Lindsay Wong
    • Narrated by: Eunice Wong
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 30-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian family whose members blamed their woes on ghosts and demons when in fact they should have been on antipsychotic meds....

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    • Growing Up Chinese-American from Number Two Son to Rock 'N' Roll
    • By: Ben Fong-Torres
    • Narrated by: Ben Fong-Torres
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 22-02-21
    • Language: English
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    • One of America's best-known rock and entertainment journalists describes his journey from his childhood, cooped up in the "rice room" of his family's restaurant in Oakland's Chinatown, where he did chores, to the major role he played as a writer and editor at Rolling Stone....

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