A compact memoir in essay form that traces the author's coming-of-age moments, friendships, and cultural touchstones while reflecting on identity and belonging.

Through a sequence of illustrated chapters and reflective sections, the author traces her parents’ lives in Vietnam, their escape after the fall of South Vietnam, and the family’s resettlement in the United States.

A linked essay collection blending memoir and criticism in which the author uses personal anecdotes, cultural analysis, and literary reflection to name and look closely at 'minor feelings'—ambivalent, often-dismissed emotions that arise from living as an Asian American in the United States.

A Cup of Water Under My Bed is a memoir in linked essays about growing up Colombian–Cuban in a working-class immigrant family.

A first-person memoir recounting the author's migration from El Salvador to the United States as a child. The narrative follows the physical and emotional journey, the dangers and practical hurdles of traveling undocumented, and the ongoing effects of displacement on family and identity.

A linked set of personal vignettes about Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-born daughters, arranged in distinct sections that echo a mahjong game's structure.

A book-length series of linked essays that record extended, close observations of the natural world around a creek and turn those observations into philosophical and lyrical reflections on life, perception, and the human place in nature.

A linked memoir of personal and communal loss: the author recounts the deaths of five Black men connected to her across roughly four years and situates those deaths within family history, local conditions, and systemic forces.

A collection of interlinked short stories drawn from Tim O'Brien's Vietnam War experience, following a platoon of American soldiers. Each chapter focuses on material items, personal recollections, or specific incidents that reveal how memory, fear, and obligation shape their daily lives and relationships.

A first-person, essayistic account that traces an author's experiences around pregnancy, partnership, and family while weaving in philosophical and theoretical reflections. The work observes intimate domestic moments alongside questions about gender, identity, and what it means to make a family in contemporary life.

A first-person memoir by Qian Julie Wang about arriving in the United States as a child with her parents and living undocumented. The narrative follows her family's struggle with poverty, precarious work, and the constant fear and limitations that come with noncitizen status.

A first-person account of growing up between Chinese folktales and American life, where family history and mythic stories intertwine with recollections of childhood.