Here are 2 books that Homecoming fans have personally recommended if you like
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I was once a doctoral student, and that experience drew me to Elaine Hsieh Chou's book Disorientation: A Novel. The story is about Ingrid Yang, a Taiwanese-American PhD student who has devoted years of time, effort, and considerable resources to completing her dissertation on a little-known but revered Chinese American poet.
I immediately empathized with Ingrid’s challenges. Her journey is a tale of self-discovery, racial identity, and the pursuit of truth, culminating in awe-inspiring self-confidence and peace of mind.
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A Taiwanese American woman’s coming-of-consciousness ignites eye-opening revelations and chaos on a college campus in this outrageously hilarious and startlingly tender debut novel.
Twenty-nine-year-old PhD student Ingrid Yang is desperate to finish her dissertation on the late canonical poet Xiao-Wen Chou…
A moving story of love, betrayal, and the enduring power of hope in the face of darkness.
German pianist Hedda Schlagel's world collapsed when her fiancé, Fritz, vanished after being sent to an enemy alien camp in the United States during the Great War. Fifteen years later, in 1932, Hedda…
I love stories about characters on Broadway or in the theatre world, which is why I chose “Yellow Face: A Semi-Autobiographical Comedy” by David Henry Hwang.
I was captivated as DHH, the protagonist, tried but failed to balance racial biases, artistic freedom, and social responsibility.
“A thesis of a play, unafraid of complexities and contradictions, pepped up with a light dramatic fizz. It asks whether race is skin-deep, actable or even fakeable, and it does so with huge wit and brio.” -TimeOut London
“A pungent play of ideas with a big heart. Yellow Face brings to the national discussion about race a sense of humor a mile wide, an even-handed treatment and a hopeful, healing vision of a world that could be” –Variety
“It's about our country, about public image, about face,” says David Henry Hwang about his latest work, a mock documentary that puts…
