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  • Big Little Man

    In Search of My Asian Self

    by Alex Tizon ...
    "Alex Tizon fearlessly penetrates the core of not just what it means to be male and Asian in America, but what it means to be human anywhere."—Cheryl Strayed, New York Times bestselling authorShame, Alex Tizon tells us, is universal—his own happened to be about race. To counteract the steady diet of American television and movies that taught Tizon to be ashamed of his face, his skin color, his ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Invisible People

    Stories of Lives at the Margins

    “Somewhere in the tangle of the subject’s burden and the subject’s desire is your story.”—Alex TizonEvery human being has an epic story. The late Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Alex Tizon told the epic stories of marginalized people—from lonely immigrants struggling to forge a new American identity to a high school custodian who penned a New Yorker short story. Edited by Tizon’s friend and former ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Where the Past Begins

    Memory and Imagination

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