[Review of] Shirley Goek-Lin Lim, Mayumi Tsutakawa and Margarita Donnelly, eds. The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women\u27s Anthology

The Forbidden Stitch appears to be one of the better anthologies of the work of Asian American women writers. The editors have worked assiduously to make it comprehensive. It is an exceptionally fine selection of prose, poetry, essays, and reviews. In an introduction it is stressed that the collection underlines the differences among the writers, correcting the error of too many critics who homogenize the term Asian American women. The writers lack a common history. The thread they form is \u27multi-colored\u27 and \u27many layered.\u27\u27\u27 The voices are plural