“Proposes a groundbreaking alternative perspective to conventional Asian American history narratives, which have primarily focused on individual male immigrants. Gomez brings forth two significant changes in this realm: firstly, by illustrating how factors such as gender, marital status, and motherhood drastically influenced the Japanese immigration into the US right from the start; secondly, by portraying how interracial mingling was a part of the Japanese American journey right from the earliest times. Honoring her personal family history, Gomez skillfully intertwines these two elements of this alternate narrative."—Emma J. Teng, author of Eurasian: Mixed Identities in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, 1842-1943”