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On our final mid-month book news episode in 2025, we review some of the latest Asian American publishing announcements, and weigh in on some recent book tea for December 2025!
Upcoming books mentioned in our publishing news:
- Light and Thread by Han Kang
- When We Swallowed the Sea by Janet Hong
- Limitlessly, Mina by Gianna Lakenauth
- Take to the Sky by Christina Soontornvat
- Not Again, Dragon Chen! by Amanda Adams; illust. Wazza Pink
- Jin Young, In Between by Ellen Oh
- Don't Print This by Monica Chin
- A Super Definitely True Story of the Great Animal Race by Dane Liu; illust. Aki
- Foreigners by E.L. Shen
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The Books & Boba December 2025 pick is Blackmail and Bibingka by Mia P. Manansala
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Don't miss an all AAPI production of HENRY VI: A Trilogy in Two Parts at The Public in NYC
The National Asian American Theatre Company’s acclaimed production of HENRY VI: A TRILOGY IN TWO PARTS brings an all-AANHPI cast to The Public Theater for a decades-spanning saga of Joan of Arc, warring dukes, and the bloody birth of the War of the Roses. Adapted by Stephen Brown-Fried, this is Shakespeare like you've never experienced it.
Part 1: Foreign Wars opens with a king dead, an infant on the throne, and a country already coming apart at the seams. Part 2: Civil Strife picks up nearly 30 years later...and the bloodbath is yet to come. Simmering feuds explode into the War of the Roses, and nothing will ever be the same. Performances from June 9 through July 19!
Use code H6BC for $59 tickets!
Henry VI at The Public with an all AAPI cast
