The Golden Phoenix, a restaurant on the Sunshine Coast. The last customers have left for the night, and Pearl can unwind. She¿s the quintessential matriarch ¿ balancing family, business, and her love of karaoke. Enter her daughters: Zoe, in the throes of online dating, making big life decisions. And Mei, a teenager, grappling with her identity in modern Australia. Of course they see the world differently to their mother. Pearl is the classic (hilarious) onslaught of embarrassing observations, constantly questioning her Westernised children. Tonight she reveals a secret that threatens to tear their family apart.

Diary of a Single Asian Female is about Candy, a young and beautiful Asian woman in New York City who is on a fun-filled and often hilarious journey to search for Mr. Right, and in the process, finds herself. Candy tries her shot at love to find Mr. Right, whom she pictures to be a doctor, a lawyer or an alpha male Wall-Street guy. She goes on a series of blind dates with men interested in interracial relationships with Asian women but keeps her modesty by sticking to The Rules. What she doesn't know is that she's going to have to kiss a few frogs before she can find her prince. Candy's best friend, Lucy, a married hedonistic foodie fashionista, offers entertaining advice. When Candy has trouble paying her insurmountable student loans, Lucy suggests a simple solution: a sugar daddy. Will Candy agree to such a seemingly unromantic arrangement? Or will she continue to seek true love? Can she have it all? Written by an Asian female New Yorker who is fluent in both English and Mandarin Chinese, this book delivers comic gold with stories such as "My Mother Found My Jia Ji Ji [Fake Penis or Dildo]" and "The Podiatrist Love Slave with the Foot Fetish." Make no mistake about it: this is a book your Asian mama would not approve! It's hot and steamy, full of juicy details about sex, cheating, and shopping. The good parts are oh so satisfying, just like that jia ji ji in the top drawer. BIG MYSTERIES: 1. What does Candy's mom discover? (Hint: it's really embarrassing) 2. Why did Mr. Alpha do what he did? 3. Who will buy Candy the Hermes Birkin? 4. Will Candy find a sugar daddy? 5. Who is Candy's Mr. Perfect? 6. How will Candy find true love? Read Diary of a Single Asian Female, a unique and amusing Asian romantic comedy, and find out! Fan mail for Diary of a Single Asian Female: "I absolutely love this! This is great-- I can totally relate as an Asian. WHEN IS YOUR BOOK COMING OUT??? I WILL BE THE FIRST TO ORDER IT ONLINE. I am going to bookmark this in case you update any more...thank you and have a beautiful day."(reader comment posted on Asiancandybook.blogspot.com.)"Super funny! Loved it!" "Your diary should be on the air! Your description is so interesting yet has great humor." "Comic gold!"About the Author: Candy Chan, the creator of SingleinManhattan.com, is an Asian-American New Yorker who grew up watching Sex and the City and wondering why there was not an Asian version of it on TV. Her friends constantly tell her she should do stand up comedy since her stories are really funny, but she prefers to tell her stories in writing. Thus, she wrote the book, Diary of a Single Asian Female, Dating Adventures in New York City. Candy immigrated to the United States as a young girl and has been going on dates with men in New York for a long time. She kept a diary for fun and therapy, and her book, Diary of An Asian Female, is a fictionalized version of that diary. What is true and what is fiction? You be the judge. Candy Chan lives in New York City and enjoys writing, eating, walking around and taking photos.For more information, visit Singleinmanhattan.com.Instagram @JustineCandyBooks

The sequel to Diary of a Single Asian Female: Dating Adventures in New York City: Candy is an Asian immigrant from Taiwan who arrived in New York City as a young girl, who continues her journey to find Mr. Right after a breakup with her doctor boyfriend due to racist remarks made by his family, all the while dealing with her overbearing Chinese mom. Candy lives in a townhouse on the Upper East Side of Manhattan as a Mandarin nanny to the children of a billionaire. Candy goes on many dates to find a husband because, at age 26, her Chinese mama is saying that she's no spring chicken. Try as she might, Candy just cannot seem to get her ex-boyfriend out of her heart.Candy's best friend Lucy is a buxom blonde and blue-eyed MILF who is married to a man who does not love her. She, therefore, finds solace in other men. She is afraid of divorce for various reasons including that her husband has threatened to fight her with lawyers and her husband has power over her due to her daddy issues. In this sequel, Lucy finally leaves her white suburban house in the suburban outskirts of New York City to live in a luxury apartment in the Financial District of Manhattan, where she meets interesting neighbors in the rooftop lounge with a panoramic view of the city: an Asian actress with a house in the Hamptons, an Asian producer; a muscular massage therapist; and a gay man living with his husband who used to be married to a woman. Lucy is in love with a billionaire, but he seems to have lost interest in her after she gets her own place. Will Lucy get a second chance at love with her billionaire?Will Lucy and Candy find what they are looking for? Find out in the sequel of Diary of a Single Asian Female...Single in Manhattan.Diary of a Single Asian Female:A dark romantic comedy about a poor young Asian immigrant girl pursuing love and sex in New York City while dealing with the tiger mom from hell.What is sweet and sour, and just a little bit salty? Asian candy. Candy Lin, age 25, a beautiful young immigrant Asian woman in New York City, lives in an Upper East Side mansion and pursues the glamorous life in New York City, and in the process, finds herself. Candy has a secret she's ashamed to reveal. She's addicted to Asian candy. She has dreams of becoming a writer someday, so she keeps a diary of funny and embarrassing things that happen to her and blogs on SingleinManhattan.com. Occasionally, we see flashbacks of her life when she was in high school and college, age 17 to 24.Diary of a Single Asian Female is about Candy, who is on a fun-filled and often hilarious journey to find Mr. Right.Candy tries her shot at love to find Mr. Right, whom she pictures to be a doctor, a lawyer or an alpha male Wall-Street guy. She goes on a series of blind dates with men interested in interracial relationships with Asian women but keeps her modesty by sticking to The Rules. What she doesn't know is that she's going to have to kiss a few frogs before she can find her prince. Candy's best friend, Lucy, a married hedonistic foodie fashionista, offers entertaining advice. When Candy has trouble paying her insurmountable student loans, Lucy suggests a simple solution: a sugar daddy. Will Candy agree to such a seemingly unromantic arrangement? Or will she continue to seek true love? Can she have it all? Written by an Asian female New Yorker who is fluent in both English and Mandarin, this book delivers comic gold with stories such as "My Mother Found My Jia Ji Ji [Fake Penis or Dildo]" and "The Podiatrist Love Slave with the Foot Fetish." Make no mistake about it: this is a book your Asian mama would not approve! It's hot and steamy, full of juicy details about sex, cheating, and shopping. The good parts are oh so satisfying, just like that jia ji ji in the top drawer. Fan mail:"This book should be on TV!""I absolutely love this! I can totally relate as an Asian.""Comic Gold!"

Few Westerners escape the images, expectations and misperceptions that lead us to see Asia as exotic, sensual, decadent, dangerous, and mysterious. Despite - and because of centuries of East-West interaction, the stereotypes of Western literature, stage, and screen remain pervasive icons: the tea-pouring, submissive, sexually available geisha girl; the steely cold dragon lady dominatrix; as well as the portrayal of the Asian male as effeminate and asexual. These "Oriental" illusions color our relations and relationships in ways even well-respected professional "Asia hands" and scholars don't necessarily see.The Asian Mystique lays out a provocative challenge to see Asia and Asians as they really are, with unclouded, deeroticized eyes. It traces the origins of Western stereotypes in history and in Hollywood, examines the phenomenon of 'yellow fever,' then goes on a reality tour of Asia's go-go bars, middle-class homes, college campuses, business districts, and corridors of power, providing intimate profiles of women's lives and vivid portraits of the human side of an Asia we usually mythologize too well to really understand. It strips away our misconceptions and stereotypes, revealing instead the fully dimensional human beings beyond our usual perceptions. The Asian Mystique is required reading for anyone with interest in or interaction with Asia or Asian-origin people, as well as any serious student or practitioner of East-West relations.

A specially curated travel guide for Asian women, by Asian women.

"Today, only twenty percent of Americans are wed by age twenty-nine, compared to nearly sixty percent in 1960. The Population Reference Bureau calls it a 'dramatic reversal.' [This book presents a] portrait of contemporary American life and how we got here, through the lens of the single American woman, covering class, race, [and] sexual orientation, and filled with ... anecdotes from ... contemporary and historical figures"--

Asian American Women: Issues, Concerns, and Responsive Human and Civil Rights Advocacy reveals the struggles of Asian American women at the bottom of the socio-economic ladder where hunger, illness, homelessness, sweatshop labor, exposure to hazardous chemicals and even involuntary servitude are everyday realities. Asian American women of all socio-economic classes suffer from domestic violence whose root causes stem from the particular forms of patriarchy that exist in Asian cultures. Their health and lives are endangered due to prevalent but wrong stereotypes about Asian women. The model minority myth hides the appalling level of human and civil rights violations against Asian American women. The lack of research or the lumping together of the over 24 subgroups of Asian Americans into a homogeneous whole misleads the public as to the extent of injustices inflicted on Asian American women. The book captures their suffering and also the fighting spirit of Asian American women who have waged social and economic justice campaigns and founded organizations to right the wrongs against them. The book is a call to action to Asian Americans, policy makers, civil rights organizations and the philanthropic community to support Asian American women in their struggles to advance their social justice agenda.