Powerful as a myth. - The Washington Post Book World

Beautifully written... a gem of a book. - The New York Times Book Review

Powerful... full of magic... You won't do anything of significance until you've finished this book. - Los Angeles Times

Wonderful... a significant lesson about what storytelling has to do with memory and heritage. - San Francisco Chronicle

Reading has truly changed my perspective on the history of the Asian American community. Our heritage contains many difficult aspects - much misogyny, a lot of fear, anger, and death. It showed me a past that transcends borders, languages, and cultures, bringing together these different elements of who we are. I had never seen our history this way before. At that time, we.