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"
victorianamkung's review
4.0
An outstanding, nuanced, and inclusive collection of fiction, essays, and poetry from the Asian diaspora. Especially relevant and necessary under this anti-immigrant administration.
samanthalaurene's review
5.0
When I was in middle school on a long school trip, I can't remember if I'd finished all the books I packed or forgot to bring any (this seems less likely, to say the least), but I ended up in a bookstore. I only had enough money to buy one book and so I committed to The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories in order to maximize the purchase. To this day and for better or worse, I remember every story in that collection. I haven't had a similar experience reading until Go Home! I don't admit this often but I rarely connect with poetry; that was not the case at all with this collection. Mothers, Lock Up Your Daughters Because They Are Terrifying is something I am seriously pissed I do not come across more often in science fiction. (Also, not from this collection, but "Black-Eyed Women" is one of the best short stories I've read. Loved Viet Thanh Nguyen's introduction here, but still haven't read The Sympathizers or The Refugees, so I think I know what's next for me.)