Reviews for Becoming Canadian: Memoirs of an Invisible Immigrant

The average rating for Becoming Canadian: Memoirs of an Invisible Immigrant based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-03-30 00:00:00 Edmond Ko This book contains a collection of folksy newspaper columns written by the author for her local newspaper in WV in the 1980's and 1990's. The subjects range from catching fireflies to how to cook a groundhog. I especially liked a column on mountain talk that made me smile as I remembered growing up in WV - some of the phrases that I liked were: saying "tejous" for tedious, "p'izen for poison, a "hard" girl for hired girl, "being plumb wore out", "tired to the bone", "plumb petered out", and "taking a cheer" for taking a chair" - these phrases may be common to other parts of the country, too, but I sure remember them from home. I think I would have rated the individual columns higher than I rated the book - a little bit at a time would have pleased me more than the whole book did.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-09-03 00:00:00 Kathy Sassa Memoir of a young woman who grow up in Lebanon in the 1920's and through arranged marriage became a Palestinian wife in the 30's. The memoir is a moving page turner and depicts a woman's attempt to keep her family together through the war around the partition of Paletstine and later the Lebanese Civil War. Women and family issues covered with intensity.