Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands

Shirley Geok-lin Lim's critically acclaimed memoir is a frank account of her childhood in war-torn and post-colonial Malaysia and her journey across cultural and geographic borders as she immigrates and forges an identity as a woman, a writer and an Asian American. Here Lim offers a timeless rendering of immigrant women's experience and a reflection on the meaning of homelands.