Thought-provoking essay collection. I've really not contemplated the Asian New Zealander experience, and there was a lot here that was new to me; even a family where each generation speaks a different language. (Interesting design by the way, that shows Chinese characters for Mandarin but Chóngmíng transliterated with Roman script.) Lu talks about the pressure to represent all of Asian New Zealand because “many non-Asian readers will see the need to engage with only one text like this, but within one volume there will never be enough words to express the intricacies of our lives.” I felt immediately guilty, because this was my one Asian New Zealand text, so I guess it had better not be my last. ( )