This book contains Richard R. Guzman’s “‘As in myth…:’ The Fiction of N.V.M. Gonzalez” an essay Yale’s Harold Bloom picked as one of the 15 best contemporary essays on Asian American writers. Also included are Chung-Hei Yun’s “Beyond ‘Clay Walls:’ Korean American Literature,” Inderpal Grewal’s “Reading and Writing the South Asian Diaspora: Feminism and Nationalism in North America,” Qui-Phiet Tran’s “From Isolation to Integration: Vietnamese Americans in Tran Dieu Hang’s Fiction,” Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s “Japanese American Women’s Life Stories,” Zenobia Baxter Mistri’s “Seventeen Syllables: A Symbolic Haiku,” and nine other important essays. This book will be available soon on this site.