A provocative, erudite study that rereads American slang through Irish etymologies.

It digs into the origins of words to uncover traces of immigrant culture.

A forceful social critique that examines race, poverty, and political responsibility after Hurricane Katrina.

It exposes the structural inequality beneath the disaster.

A memoir that layers immigrant labor, family rupture, and queer self-formation.

It searches for a place to belong at the intersection of memory and identity.

A novel that follows two women whose lives are shaped by migration between Mexico and the United States.

It traces the pain and hope of crossing a border through two intertwined perspectives.

An Alaska Native memoir that weaves Tlingit memory, family history, and the effects of colonization.

It reads as a story of return that follows the knots between land and memory.

A critical travelogue that visits immigrant and Indigenous gardens to think about food, culture, and belonging.

It presents gardens as places where memory and community connect.

An experimental, highly visual graphic work built on a Dantean frame.

It reshapes a descent into hell through allegory and visual energy.

A critical study that questions the framework through which Chinese American literature is read.

It pushes criticism beyond the confines of a literary Chinatown.

A lyric collection that links bodily feeling, the salmon cycle, and the passage of time.

It turns the body itself into a site of thought.

A novel about grief and survival in the family left behind after a school shooting.

It looks at the aftermath of an unspeakable tragedy through the mother’s eyes.