I was expecting more from this book since its so highly regarded and i finally found time to listen to the audiobook after a couple years since its publication. I think hong definetly speaks to some of my frustrations as an asian american, but with all essay collections there were some i enjoyed more than others which could have also been influenced by the fact i chose to listen to it instead of checking out the e-book and actually looking at the text.

i appreciated some of the latter essays, but found the one essay where she tries to challenge the notion that asian americans are next in line to be white to weirdly straddle a very strange line where she talks about the huge wealth/SES disparity between different ethnic groups in the asian american community and then doesn't really go into the struggles of later immigrants and refugees despite there being a LOT of great research that has been published in the past couple decades. 

she could have also expanded on the tradition of pan-asian and inter-ethnic solidarity that is present in our history and she doesn't really expand on what has already been treaded in asian american academic circles. and i think some of her writing could be strengthened with some more research? and i also don't really vibe with how she personally interprets and writes about the asian amercian experience. i don't know maybe i need to pick up a physical copy and try again.