"Shirley Geok-lin Lim has written a work of rare clarity and dynamism about identity, location, and the various educations a brave and serious person can achieve in a many-stranded world. Feisty, intense, and canny, this memoir is richly nuanced in both aesthetic and analytic values, [and] fascinating in its dialogues between an individual and her political and social experiences."

Rachel Blau Duplessis, professor of English, Temple University, and author of The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice

"Lim looks back on her early days of growing up always aware of her ‘otherness’ in this gripping, courageous memoir. In these days of increasing racial polarity, this is a voice that must be heard."
- Mitsuye Yamada, founder and coordinator of the MultiCultural Women Writers (MCWW) and author of Camp Notes and Other Poems