"This compelling collection of prose poems charts a woman's peripatetic journey as she struggles to find home in various lands whose inhabitants question or challenge her arrival. A rewarding excursion into a fierce and vibrant life!"

-Rigoberto González, author of The Book of Ruin

"Allegiance reads like a photogravure tour of cultural contradictions, fierce adaptations, family loyalties, and personal independence. Gee is a marvelously direct writer of powerful autobiographical vignettes, each one telling in its quiet ferocity for personal revelation, each a momentary, lyric ascent above everyday confusion."

-Garrett Hongo, author of Coral Road

"Allegiance is a book of hard-won understanding, of difficult grace."

-Rick Barot, author of The Galleons

"A beautiful hybrid work that weaves together all of Gee's strengths: personal essay, micro memoirs and poems. This moving collection traverses religion, family, identity and all the ways a person can crave belonging."

-Traci Brimhall, author of Come the Slumberless To the Land of Nod

"These masterfully compressed glimpses offer insight into our inner lives, into distances and possibilities."

-Peggy Shumaker, author of Cairn

"By turns lyrical and humorous, Allegiance vividly illustrates how a sense of not belonging deepens a writer's emotional citizenship. Gee's true allegiance is to her wise and carefully examined perceptions of her world and the people in it, which will be startling familiar to anyone who has ever felt like a stranger in their homeland."

-Suzanne Berne, author of Missing Lucille

"In remarkably few words, Gee captures a life shaped by immigration, geographic distance and the complexities of family. Allegiance makes its characters knowable and real, and is unafraid to ask them difficult questions."

-Adrienne Su, author of Peach State