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

This "fascinating autobiography" from an award-winning Asian-American female author "reads like a novel" (The Washington Post Book World).

With insight, candor, and grace, Shirley Geok-lin Lim recalls her path from her poverty-stricken childhood in war-torn Malaysia to her new and exciting yet uncertain womanhood in America. Grappling to secure a place for herself in the United States, she is often caught between the stifling traditions of the old world and the harsh challenges of the new...