
Marilyn Chin, with her multilayered, multidimensional, intercultural singing, elegizes the loss of her mother and maternal grandmother and tries to unravel the complexities of her family's past. She tells of the trials of immigration, of exile, of thwarted interracial love,...

A fusion of east and west, high culture, popular culture, and ancient Chinese history mark this collection. It explores the trials of immigration, exile, thwared interracial love, and social injustice, and loss of family.