pt. 1. -- [ch.] 1. Splendor and squalor -- [ch.] 2. War and marriage -- [ch.] 3. Geographies of relocation -- pt. 2. -- [ch.] 4. Pomegranates and English education -- [ch.] 5. Dancing girl scholar -- [ch.] 6. Turning woman -- pt. 3. -- [ch.] 7. Outside the Empire -- [ch.] 8. Black bird singing -- [ch.] 9. Two lives -- pt. 4. -- [ch.] 10. Immigrant mother -- [ch.] 11. Moving home.
Summary
Shirley Geok-lin Lim recalls her girlhood in war-torn Malaysia and her later life in the US, where she moves from a numbing alienation as a dislocated Asian woman to a new sense of identify as an Asian-American woman: professor, wife, mother, and writer.