Fiona and Jane

TAMMY TARNG, THE NEW YORK TIME BOOK REVIEW

"... even to those not from Los Angeles, Ho's debut collection feels like a shared experience, carefully read back to you ... While Ho, born in Taiwan and raised in California, circles sexuality, money and religion with grace, the most moving parts of the book are about the two women's respective family roots ... Certain descriptions feel overdone and stilted ... But regardless, over the course of the book Fiona and Jane become real and electric and precious people. The stories move through intimate, cinematic scenes ... The world Ho creates between the two women feels like one friend reading the other's story, wishing she were there ... it is through compassion that the characters belong like this to each other, and to the reader, too."