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6 new books to check out during AAPI month

On the Shelf Six books by AAPI authors to read this month If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Paper Names By Susie Luo Hanover Suare: 238 pages, $30 In Luo’s debut novel, an assault brings together three Americans whose alternating perspectives are braided throughout: Tony Zhang, a Dalian-born engineer who moves his family to New York; his daughter Tammy, whom we watch grow up and attend Harvard; and Oliver, a dreamy white lawyer who’s kind of a jerk. Spanning seven decades, “The Covenant of Water” is a family epic set on South India’s Malabar Coast, following three generations as they try to make sense of their family curse: death by drowning. A History of Burning By Janika Oza Grand Central: 400 pages, $29 Oza’s Indo-Ugandan family saga opens with 13-year-old Pirbhai leaving his home to work for the British on the East African Railway in 1898. Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City By Jane Wong Tin House: 288 pages, $28 Wong’s memoir recounts her upbringing in her family’s restaurant on the Jersey Shore of the late 1980s.

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