RaveThe New York Times Book ReviewMuch of Grace Talusan’s memoir will be familiar to any reader of immigrant narratives. But what renders the book memorable is the author’s unstinting self-portrait. We see Talusan clearly in the present, warts and all, precisely through the stark, lucid representations of herself in the past ... Talusan chronicles that fraught passage from one world, one body, to another, marking with sensitivity how an American life can be both burden and benediction.
