Winnipeg Free Press * * * * -- Kevin Prokosh
Michelle Todd’s memoir is about growing up in Edmonton with a Jamaican father and a Filipino mother. It’s a classic Canadian immigrant’s coming-of-age story affectionately told with humour and energy.
The starting point of the sometimes rambling, hour-long monologue is the discovery that Todd and her white Ukrainian-Anglo boyfriend are having a baby. It ignites Todd’s musing about cultural identity. What if I have to make my son food for ethnic day at school? she wonders. What am I going to make? Deep fried curried perogies?
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