Stack Overflow: Celebrating Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month

May is Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month, a time to recognize the ways that Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans have contributed to our culture here in the United States. Here’s a stack of books to help you celebrate! It feels all the more important this year because of the way that this pandemic has allowed some to cast Asians as the “other,” reminding us that our identity as Americans has still not been fully accepted.

The books in today’s stack are primarily about East Asians, which is what I was able to find in my review stacks, but if you have some favorite books about other Asians and Pacific Islanders, please leave them in the comments!

Amy’s parents and grandmother are experts at making bao, the soft, fluffy, steamed buns filled with meat. But Amy just can’t quite get them right-sometimes they’re too big, sometimes they don’t close up because there’s too much filling. Today, though, she’s determined to get it right. Okay, so the conflict in this book doesn’t have super high stakes, but it’s very cute, and reading the descriptions of the bao-making process will make your mouth water. Amy’s parents and grandmother give…