Naomi Hirahara

Set in 1944 Chicago, twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her parents have just been released from Manzanar, where they have been detained by the US government since the aftermath of Pearl Harbor. On the eve of the Ito family's reunion, Aki's older sister Rose is killed by a subway train. Officials are ruling Rose's death a suicide. Aki's instinct tells her there is much more to the story, and she knows she is the only person who could ever learn the truth. Author of "Hiroshima Boy." Print run 75,000.

Clark and Division

Set in modern L.A., this novel of moral and spiritual reckoning finds a Japanese American who survived the horrors of Hiroshima forced to relive the nightmare when a stranger show up looking for him. Original.

Summer of the Big Bachi

After Leilani Santiago discovers a young pro surfer dead in her family's shave ice shack on the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i, she must work to exonerate the No. 1 murder suspect, her estranged father, the star surfer's coach.

A Leilani Santiago Hawai'i Mystery

Iced in Paradise

During the L.A.'s Chinese New Year Parade, rookie bike cop Ellie Rush's day turns dangerous when a murder investigation falls into her lap. Original. 45,000 first printing.

Murder on Bamboo Lane

Evergreen

1944, sur la côte californienne, Aki Ito, 20 ans, et ses parents viennent d'être libérés du camp de Manzanar, où ils étaient détenus par le gouvernement américain depuis le bombardement de Pearl Harbor, aux côtés de milliers de citoyens Américains d'origine japonaise.
La vie qu'ils avaient avant-guerre n'existe plus et ils sont contraints de quitter leur région pour se réinstaller à deux mille kilomètres de là, à Chicago, où la sœur aînée d'Aki, Rose, avait été envoyée quelques mois plus tôt. Rose vit dans le nouveau quartier nippo-américain, près de la station de métro Clark & Divison. Mais à la veille des retrouvailles de la famille Ito, Rose est tuée par une rame de métro. Les autorités concluent à un suicide, mais Aki, qui vénérait sa sœur, est stupéfaite : comment cette jeune femme, parfaite, polie et optimiste, a pu mettre fin à sa vie ? Ne se fiant qu'à son instinct et à son amour fraternel, Aki se lance dans une enquête qu'elle est la seule à pouvoir mener.

Ma soeur est morte à Chicago

Eternal Lei

1001 Cranes

Set in modern L.A., this novel of moral and spiritual reckoning finds a Japanese American who survived the horrors of Hiroshima forced to relive the nightmare when a stranger shows up looking for him. A first novel. Reprint.

With her parents on the verge of separating, a devastated twelve-year-old Japanese American girl spends the summer in Los Angeles with her grandparents, where she folds paper cranes into wedding displays, becomes involved with a young skateboarder, and learns how complicated relationships can be.

Mas Arai returns for his fifth mystery by getting entangled in a family reunion murder in California's strawberry fields.

Strawberry Yellow

Julian Smith

Jennet Conant

Ishmael Reed

Julia Flynn Siler

Jane Hirshfield

Mark Wallace

Doug Peacock

Lydia Lee

D. J. Waldie

Joseph Giovannini

Désirée Zamorano

Laura Fraser

Joy Lanzendorfer

Santi Elijah Holley

Monica Corcoran Harel

Jessica Klein

Robert Ito

Adam Mayer

Emma Pratt

Ky-Phong Tran

Matt Twombly

Jessica Zack

The Gimme Shelter Issue

Alta Journal Issue 24

Gwenn M. Jensen

Oral Histories of Japanese American Doctors in World War II Detention Camps

Silent Scars of Healing Hands

Kat Richardson

Richie Narvaez

Aaron Erickson

Peter Spiegelman

Libby Cudmore

Jim Winter

Steve Brewer 

W.H. Cameron 

Reed Farrel Coleman 

Matthew Quinn Martin

Jim Thomsen

Think you can’t buy a thrill? This book proves you wrong. Katy lied. Or did she? As with the blues and Elvis and somebody else’s favorite song, it’s open to interpretation. These twelve tales interpret shady pasts, dubious presents, and doomed futures. There’s no hiding inside a hall of rock and sand from stories as deliciously wicked and terrifically twisty as the jazz-rock noir that inspired them. These masters of crime fiction heard the call and wrote it on the wall for you and me. As they name the beast, they make alive worldly wonders in characters you’ve known for decades through the hypnotically woven tapestries of Steely Dan, destined to live on as indelibly as the hallucinatory memories in the caves of Altamira. Edited by Brian Thornton with stories by Steve Brewer, W.H. Cameron, Reed Farrel Coleman, Libby Cudmore, Aaron Erickson, Naomi Hirahara, Matthew Quinn Martin, Richie Narvaez, Kat Richardson, Peter Spiegelman, Jim Thomsen, and Jim Winter.

Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of Steely Dan

A Beast Without a Name

The Story of George Aratani : Founder of Mikasa and Kenwood

An American Son

David Smith

Steph Cha

Sean Taylor

Gary Phillips

Dale Furutani

Alan Porter

Henry Chang

Gigi Pandian

Calvin McMillin

Percival Constantine

Don Lee

Kimberly Richardson

Mark Finn

Leonard Chang

William Wu

Louise Jones

Following in the tradition of the best selling Black Pulp, from Today's Best Authors and up and coming writers comes Asian Pulp from Pro Se Productions! A collection of stories featuring characters of Asian origin or descent in stories that run the gamut of genre fiction! Asian Pulp includes works from Don Lee, Naomi Hirahara, Kimberly Richardson, Percival Constantine, William F. Wu, Gary Phillips, Calvin McMillin, Mark Finn, Dale Furutani, Steph Cha, Henry Chang, Sean Taylor, Gigi Pandian, Louise Herring-Jones, Alan J. Porter, and David C. Smith. The anthology opens with an introduction from Leonard Chang, novelist and writer and co-producer of the TV crime drama Justified. Mysteries, westerns, stories of crime and noir, and more, all with Asian characters in the lead! Between these covers are 17 tales of action, adventure, and thrills featuring heroes and heroines of a different shade that will appeal to audiences everywhere! Asian Pulp! From Pro Se Productions!

Asian Pulp

From Summer of the Big Bachi to Gasa-Gasa Girl, Naomi Hirahara’s acclaimed novels have featured one of mystery fiction’s most unique heroes: Mas Arai, a curmudgeonly L.A. gardener, Hiroshima survivor, and inveterate gambler. Few things get Mas more excited than gambling, so when he hears about a $500,000 win–from a novelty slot machine!–he’s torn between admiration and derision. But the stakes are quickly raised when the winner, a friend of Mas’s pal G. I. Hasuike, is found stabbed to death just days later. The last thing Mas wants to do is stick his nose in someone else’s business, but at G.I.’s prodding he reluctantly agrees to follow the trail of a battered snakeskin shamisen (a traditional Okinawan musical instrument) left at the scene of the crime…and suddenly finds himself caught up in a dark mystery that reaches from the islands of Okinawa to the streets of L.A.–a world of heartbreaking memories, deception, and murder.

Snakeskin Shamisen

Heather C. Lindquist

“A compelling account of the lives of Japanese and Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II . . . instructive and moving.”—Nippon.com From the editor of the award-winning Children of Manzanar, Heather C. Lindquist, and Edgar Award winner Naomi Hirahara comes a nuanced account of the “Resettlement”: the relatively unexamined period when ordinary people of Japanese ancestry, having been unjustly imprisoned during World War II, were finally released from custody. Given twenty-five dollars and a one-way bus ticket to make a new life, some ventured east to Denver and Chicago to start over, while others returned to Southern California only to face discrimination and an alarming scarcity of housing and jobs. Hirahara and Lindquist weave new and archival oral histories into an engaging narrative that illuminates the lives of former internees in the postwar era, both in struggle and unlikely triumph. Readers will appreciate the painstaking efforts that rebuilding required and will feel inspired by the activism that led to redress and restitution—and that built a community that even now speaks out against other racist agendas. “Through this thoughtful story, we see how the harsh realities of the incarceration experience follow real lives, and how Manzanar will sway generations to come. When you finish the last chapter you will demand to read more.”—Gary Mayeda, national president of the Japanese American Citizens League “An engaging, well-written telling of how former Manzanar detainees played key roles in remembering and righting the wrong of the World War II incarceration.”—Tom Ikeda, executive director of Densho

Life After Manzanar

LA gardener Mas Arai returns to Hiroshima to bring his best friend’s ashes to a relative on the tiny offshore island of Ino, only to become embroiled in the mysterious death of a teenage boy who was about the same age Mas was when he survived the atomic bomb in 1945. The boy’s death affects the elderly, often-curmudgeonly, always-reluctant sleuth, who cannot return home to Los Angeles until he finds a way to see justice served. Naomi Hirahara is the Edgar-winning author of the Mas Arai mystery series, including Summer of the Big Bachi, Blood Hina, Strawberry Yellow, and Sayonara Slam. She is also the author of the LA-based Ellie Rush mysteries, published by Penguin. Her Mas Arai books have earned such honors as Publishers Weekly’s Best Book of the Year and one of the Chicago Tribune’s Ten Best Mysteries and Thrillers. The Stanford University alumna was born and raised in Altadena, CA, where her protagonist lives; she now resides in neighboring Pasadena.

Hiroshima Boy

Naomi Hirahara

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