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ajlct's review
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
sad
tense
medium-paced
5.0
espaileen's review
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
3.0
Collection of short stories tend to be hit and miss. I enjoyed the stories I read, while others didn't pique my interest. Worth a read to learn about authors.
kathyxtran's review against another edition
3.0
Reference reading - a list on The Rumpus
Highlights were:
"Mothers, Lock Up Your Daughters Because They Are Terrifying" by Alice Sola Kim
"Esmeralda" by Mia Alvar
"For Mitsuye Yamada on Her 90th Birthday 260" by Marilyn Chin
"The Faintest Echo of Our Language" by Chang-Rae Lee
Highlights were:
"Mothers, Lock Up Your Daughters Because They Are Terrifying" by Alice Sola Kim
"Esmeralda" by Mia Alvar
"For Mitsuye Yamada on Her 90th Birthday 260" by Marilyn Chin
"The Faintest Echo of Our Language" by Chang-Rae Lee
delimeatz's review
emotional
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
absolutely beautiful! i loved the overall motif of not belonging and otherness, and despite not loving a few stories they all came together quite nicely
sinnymonbunz's review
challenging
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
"Did you, the first time you went there, / intend to come back?" / "Wait a minute," I say, "did you get a visa / when you first went to the moon? Fuck the moon, / tell me about Vietnam. Just how precise / were your plans there, you asshole." excerpt from Amitava Kumar's "Love Poems for the Border Patrol"