6 Important Books for Keanu Reeves

In a latest interview with Essence Journal, Keanu Reeves talked about self-identifying as an individual of coloration. Extra particularly, he identifies as Chinese language Canadian. Nicely, the Asian American and Asian Canadian communities welcome Keanu Reeves with open arms, particularly throughout Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.

Fascinated with Keanu Reeves, his profession, and his self-identification, I couldn’t assist however put collectively an inventory of “important studying” for the star. It’s excellent timing for the ultimate days of AAPI month and nice in the event you’re additionally new to studying Asian authors. So with out additional ado, right here’s 5 important reads reflecting Keanu Reeves’s profession:

Battle Royale by Koushun Takami

To mirror all of the motion/journey films Keanu Reeves ever performed in (like now-playing John Wick three), Battle Royale is a necessary and wonderful motion novel. It facilities a bunch of faculty youngsters who’re dropped onto a small island and instructed the one strategy to escape is to kill everybody else. The last-man standing novel additionally impressed video video games like Fortnite and PUBG and its total style.

The Paper Menagerie and Different Tales by Ken Liu

As a result of Keanu Reeves is thought for his position as Neo in The Matrix collection, I couldn’t write this checklist with out together with a science fiction creator like Ken Liu and his quick story “The Paper Menagerie.” The eponymous e book affords a number of totally different sci-fi themed tales, all of which might make Neo exclaim “whoa.”

The Pleasure Luck Membership by Amy Tan

The final word novel about juggling Asian and American heritage needs to be The Pleasure Luck Membership by Amy Tan. This jogs my memory a whole lot of Keanu Reeves’s critical appearing aspect when he performed Siddartha in Little Buddha or Scott Favor in My Personal Non-public Idaho. The story follows 4 girls who all immigrated to America to deliver their households higher lives. The juxtaposition of their lives compared to these of their daughters brings perspective to many related lives of Asian immigrants.

Loopy Wealthy Asians by Kevin Kwan

For all of the comedic roles Keanu Reeves has performed, I extremely suggest Loopy Wealthy Asians by Kevin Kwan. The story of Rachel and Nicholas, who journey to Singapore for a marriage just for Rachel to seek out out the #blessed life Nicholas actually comes from. It’s stuffed with laughs and gossip and I do know Keanu isn’t one for the rags, however he’ll most positively perceive the loopy wealthy Asian half.

The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

To additional offset the intense novels, I believed a romance can be good to deliver Keanu again to his days as a romantic lead. The Kiss Quotient follows Stella, a younger skilled with autism spectrum dysfunction, who’s by no means been in a romantic relationship earlier than and finds the thought of kissing to be repulsive. She hires Michael, an Asian American escort, to assist her recover from her aversion to kissing and study a bit bit about love.

Little Fires All over the place by Celeste Ng

Whereas this isn’t particularly a narrative about an Asian household, it’s written by an Asian American creator. I believe it could be nice for Keanu to get to know the representatives of his tradition in books, and Celeste Ng’s work is an enormous instance of how Asian authors are increasing outdoors of writing simply their very own story. It’s the story about Mia Warren and her daughter who arrive in a small city in Ohio. Nonetheless, this lovely little city comes with its personal baggage because the household navigates prejudice and the principles of residing in Shaker Heights.

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