I feel like I missed out b/c this book came out after I was in uni, heh!

Mootoo is apparently Canadian--well, she was born in Dublin & grew up in Trinidad, & then moved to Canada when she was 19... I see online that she's mentioned as spending part of her time in NYC, which I guess could be why she got put in an Asian American syllabus (or they were taking the broader view of "America"!). ;)