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Need a Good Summer Read? Try These 28 Books Featured on the Blog

July 13, 2017August 16, 2018 Jocelyn Eikenburg 5 Comments A Bollywood Affair, A Field Guide to Happiness, Alex Tizon, Atom Yang, Big Little Man, Celeste Ng, Dana Sachs, Empire of Glass, Everything I Never Told You, Ferry Tale, Good Chinese Wife, Grace Buchele Mineta, Here Comes the Sun: A Journey to Adoption in 8 Chakras, How Does One Dress to Buy Dragonfruit, Huan Hsu, Janet Brown, Kaitlin Solimine, Kelli Estes, Leza Lowitz, Linda Leaming, Love Me Anyway, My Japanese Husband (Still) Thinks I'm Crazy, My Japanese Husband Thinks I'm Crazy, Nicki Chen, Parsley & Coriander: Life in China with Italian flavor, Pearl River Drama: Dating in China, Quincy Carroll, Ray Hecht, Red Envelope, Shannon Young, Sonali Dev, South China Morning Blues, Susan Blumberg-Kason, Susan Chan, The Empress of Bright Moon, The Girl Who Wrote in Silk, The Good Shufu, The Moon in the Palace, The Porcelain Thief, The Reluctant Brides of Lily Court Lane, The Secret of The Nightingale Palace, There's Something I Want to Tell You: True Stories of Mixed Dating in Japan, Tiffany Hawk, Tiger Tail Soup, Tone Deaf in Bangkok, Tracy Slater, Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside, Weina Dai Randel, Year of Fire Dragons, Yuta Aoki

Whether you’re chilling out on the beach or cooling down indoors, here’s my list of recommended summer reads I’ve featured here on the blog

Book Reviews

2015 Gift Recommendations For Books Featured On This Blog

November 30, 2015November 26, 2015 Jocelyn Eikenburg 10 Comments A Bollywood Affair, Grace Buchele Mineta, Here Comes the Sun: A Journey to Adoption in 8 Chakras, Huan Hsu, Leza Lowitz, Mingmei Yip, My Japanese Husband (Still) Thinks I'm Crazy, Pearl River Drama: Dating in China, Ray Hecht, Secret of a Thousand Beauties, Shannon Young, Sonali Dev, South China Morning Blues, Susan Chan, The Good Shufu, The Porcelain Thief, The Reluctant Brides of Lily Court Lane, There's Something I Want to Tell You: True Stories of Mixed Dating in Japan, Tracy Slater, Year of Fire Dragons, Yuta Aoki

Great gifts for book lovers, including memoirs echoing “Eat, Pray, Love”, sizzling romances, nonfiction on Chinese culture/history, and fun expat comics.

Book Reviews

Interview with Susan Chan, co-author of the romance novel “The Reluctant Brides of Lily Court Lane”

April 10, 2015April 9, 2015 Jocelyn Eikenburg 10 Comments AMWF, Carol Polakoff, interracial couples, Susan Chan, The Reluctant Brides of Lily Court Lane

My interview with Susan Chan about “The Reluctant Brides of Lily Court Lane”, an easy and breezy romance novel that features an AMWF couple.

Guest Posts

Guest Post: My daughter said, “I’m American, I’m Jewish and I’m Chinese.”

February 27, 2015February 26, 2015 Jocelyn Eikenburg 21 Comments American, AMWF, biracial Asian kids, Chinese, Jewish, Susan Chan

Susan Chan recalls how her biracial and bicultural daughter once encountered a boy who told her, “you can’t be three things.”