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I really liked this book because it was evocative of my own childhood, my own family, and my own people, the San Francisco Chinese community that I grew up "outside of." It also reflects some of my own experiences as a Chinese American growing up in a multicultural context and moving into the mainstream American culture. I sense in Yep a kindred spirit greater than any other Chinese American writer I have read so far, mainly because I also did not grow up speaking Chinese or living in Chinatown, and because we are of the same generation. My reaction as I read this book was, "I have to get copies of this book to give to friends who grew up in San Francisco with me," -- who know the people and places that are being described here. And "I have to get my family to read this" -- the next generation, so they get a feel for where we came from.