![]() its raining books by overthemoon, via Flickr Fixed the link so book. The store also carries a selection of children’s books and graphic novels. Paula Scher designs bold new identity for New Yorks Atlantic Theater Company. Through a network of publishers and independent vendors, Yu has procured more than 1,600 works, including some of her favorite titles from recent years: “Crying in H Mart,” a memoir by Korean American musician and Japanese Breakfast lead singer Michelle Zauner, and “A Place for Us,” Fatima Farheen Mirza’s novel about an Indian American Muslim family. “I dreamed of a place where people who look like me can walk into and think, ‘I see myself on the shelves, I feel seen here.’” Rusbook Corp Russian Bookseller Book Stores Website (718) 336-7680 3093 Brighton 4th St Brooklyn, NY 11235 5. “I want to showcase an inventory of all those voices at a time when it feels like our lives are in danger,” she said. Rusbook Corp Russian Bookseller Book Stores (718) 336-7680 2928 W 5th St Brooklyn, NY 11224 4. This level of literary representation, Yu said, has become crucial as events of the past year have exposed the peril of being Asian in the United States. ![]() ![]() One of her rare finds is “Coming of Age in Samoa,” a 1928 psychological study of Samoan youth by the American anthropologist Margaret Mead. Given that many bookstores carry acclaimed Japanese and Korean literature, she made a conscious effort to research pivotal but lesser known works about Southeast Asia and the island nations. Yu spent more than a year curating inventory that reflects the diversity and depth of the Asian American community. ![]()
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