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"Paisley Rekdal is the sort of observer we should all wish for: disarming, frank, and intelligent. This self-portrait--refreshingly non-PC--shows that she is a talented writer too. In setting out to explore three realms--China, Japan, and Korea--she ends up learning much about another one: herself."
-- Arthur Golden
"Paisley Rekdal has taken that universal question--Who am I?--and added to it another dimension: What am I? She has looked in the mirror, as well as the world around her, to examine issues of identity, ethnicity, culture and race. No polemics here, just observations and experiences of the most personal kind. And she's funny too!"
-- Lisa See, author of On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family
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