"[Wong] paints her story with flourish."--The New York Times

"A love letter to Atlantic City and the Asian American working class."-- The Los Angeles Times

"Blazing, lyrical."--The Boston Globe

"Joyful. . . . Wong's memoir invites those who have been overlooked in America to hold up their verses, accolades and solidarity in a collective rejoinder to their detractors."--The Washington Post

An incandescent, exquisitely written memoir about family, food, girlhood, resistance, and growing up in a Chinese American restaurant on the Jersey shore.