Books like Watercress
By Andrea Wang
For the kid who's ever felt embarrassed by something their family does differently, this is a quiet, honest look at how that feeling can turn into understanding. Quiet, tender, bittersweet, and visually dreamlike.
A young boy spends his mornings with his Baba, his grandmother, tending her garden and eating together, until the day comes when he gets to care for her the way she's always cared for him.
A young girl walks to a traditional Japanese bath house with her grandmother and aunties, moving through hair washing and back scrubbing rituals before easing into the steaming communal bath together.
A young girl emigrates from Taiwan to America with her family, leaving behind her beloved popo, and stays connected across the ocean through visits, calls, and memories as she grows up.
A young girl feeling as gray as a pigeon on a rainy Saturday joins her busy mom on a trip to their favorite Chinatown store, gathering produce, seafood, and spices for a family dinner.
A mother and daughter treasure their one shared Saturday each week, planning storytime, salon time, a picnic, and a puppet show — but one setback after another threatens to spoil it.
A young man leaves Japan to explore California, falls in love with both places, and spends his life torn between two homelands he can never fully choose between.
A boy and his father fish before dawn at a Minneapolis pond, not for sport but for food, while stories of a different pond back in Vietnam quietly surface between casts.
A poor washerwoman on the island of Martinique uses her mother's magic wand to help her beloved goddaughter Cendrillon win the heart of a rich man's son.
A child, her mother, and her grandmother travel together across India to Kanyakumari, where three oceans meet, sharing meals and memories along the way to the end of the earth.
A family leaves the comfortable, familiar house they love and moves somewhere new, discovering that home is really the people you share it with.
A carload of relatives drives all the way from Virginia in a rainbow-colored station wagon for a summer visit full of hugging, garden-tending, and porch music that ends, happily, with a promise to return.
A girl takes an evening motorcycle ride with her papi through their neighborhood, watching familiar streets and faces even as the community changes around her.
