"With its episodic forward movement and rich period detail, its delightful set pieces and flashback interpolations, "The Jade Peony" resembles a memoir in its texture" –"New York Times"
""The Jade Peony" is a sweet and funny novel ...[it] delights us with beautifully written prose, but it does more than that, too. It renders a complex and complete human world, which, by the end of 200-odd pages, we have learned to love."–"Boston Book Review"
"Childhood lessons are quietly, powerfully drawn here, with Choy's evocation of harsh immigrant reality nothing short of masterful."–"Kirkus reviews"
"Although Choy's work is fictional, it realistically echoes the difficult life struggles of early Chinese Cantonese immigrants as captured in such biographical works as Denise Chong's "The Concubine's Children" and Ben Fong-Torres's "The Rice Room""–Library Journal
"Insightful, wise, and touching"–"Christian Science Monitor"