ssohn's review against another edition
4.0
The best memoirs are brave in the sense that I think the memoirist must be willing to convey as openly as possible certain "truths" about his or her life. David Mura's odyssey is detailed her through his strained connections to his sexuality, which revolve so much about his desire to reclaim a certain lost virile masculinity that is no doubt tied to not only his racial background, but the experience of his parents, who were both interned. I found the memoir willing to jump into the "muck" of theorizing desire in all of its peculiar and contradictory forms.
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