On From the Other Side

This is a good synthetic work on the experiences of immigrants who are women, and the way that their experiences (and “acculturation”) differ from men (who are ordinarily framed as genderless immigrants). The biggest problem is honestly the size of the book—the book covers 170 years and a wide array of different ethnic groups (which is downplayed in order to emphasize gender, which I understand) in less than 200 pages of text. For a text like this, it would have been better to double its length in order to do more justice to the little shades of experience that might otherwise be mixed. Nevertheless, this book is an achievement.