This is passionate, heartfelt literary criticism--meticulous, wise, and enlightening. Ninh (Asian American studies, U. of California, Santa Barbara) began this book a decade ago, and the result
is a study of great vitality and strength--a springboard for future work. In her conclusion she states: "... the academic collectivity is now on notice that administering childhood by the
family prestige index is not ideologically defensible parenting, that the professional managerial model child costs us something incalculable to make." The study offers a close look at works by
Jade Snow Wong, Maxine Hong Kingston, Evelyn Lau, Catherine Liu, Fae Myenne Ng, Elaine Mar, and Chitra Divakaruni. Annotation 穢2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
