From Leila Mottley’s instant New York Times bestseller to Lio Min’s queer YA love letter to music and anime, we chat with the writers behind some of 2022’s hottest books.
While many of us will remember the last year as a time when superstar authors published highly-anticipated follow-ups — think Michelle Obama, Jennifer Egan and Hanya Yanagihara — it was also a banner year for emerging voices.
Despite the media frenzy, which included appearances on late night talk shows with Trevor Noah and Seth Meyers, the “I wanted the story to touch on vulnerability within Black girlhood and link that closely to what it means to be harmed by those who are supposed to protect us,” she says. The book, which came out in June, mirrors parts of Kuo’s life. Anna lives in a one-bedroom apartment with her parents and spends her days after school helping out at the flailing fast-food restaurant they poured their savings into. The novel is set in the small town of Duarte in Los Angeles County, where Kuo’s own family settled. Like them, Anna’s family endures overt racism, vandalism and feelings of alienation within their own Asian-American community.
“There really was a Terry and Don, and they really did take me to Disneyland,” she says. “What motivated these people to be so kind to us?” Joanna Ho holds her most recent book in the library at East Palo Alto Academy. Ho is the daughter of immigrants from China and Taiwan and a New York Times bestselling author of three books for kids.
Ho is hopeful that change is possible. She is inspired by the “insightful, hopeful, observant” youth around her, similar to May, who goes against her parents’ advice to “keep her head down” amid the hate and instead publishes her opinions about these stereotypes and ultimately mobilizes support and solidarity against the racist accusations.
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