"[Kenji] Yoshino offers his personal search for authenticity as an encouragement for everyone to think deeply about the ways in which all of us have covered our true selves. . . . We really do feel newly inspired."
--The New York Times Book Review "Yoshino argues convincingly in this book, part luminous, moving memoir, part cogent, level-headed treatise, that covering is going to become more and more a civil rights issue as the nation (and the nation's courts) struggle with an increasingly multiethnic America."
--San Francisco Chronicle "[A] remarkable debut . . . [Yoshino's] sense of justice is pragmatic and infectious."
--Time Out New York "[
Covering] is, at heart, a memoir written by a legal scholar who might have missed his calling as a poet. . . . Powerful."
--The Village Voice "Who'd expect a book on civil rights and the law to be warmly personal, elegantly written, and threaded with memorable images? . . . The beauty of Yoshino's book lies in the poetry he brings to telling his own story."
--O: The Oprah Magazine "A lush, frequently elegant account . . . Yoshino is a skillful narrative guide with a gift for describing the small dramas of still situations."
--Legal Affairs "Yoshino introduces a new term into the American social lexicon: 'covering' is the new 'passing, ' the new 'closet.' . . . Provocative and affecting,
Covering challenges us to be as open with one another as Yoshino is willing to be with us."
--The Boston Globe
"The poignancy of [Yoshino's] personal victory is as compelling as any other piece of his treatise."
--Los Angeles Times "[A] sober, rigorous and touching treatise on behalf of the disenfranchised that comes not a moment too soon . . . In times to come, this book could be viewed as a seminal work."
--Chicago Sun-Times "[Yoshino] eloquently weaves memoir and legal text in this lovely, moving, and persuasive book. . . . Real, raw, and beautiful."
--Edge Providence "[A] brilliantly argued and engaging book . . . a finely grained memoir of young man's struggles to come to terms with his sexuality . . . a powerful argument for a whole new way of thinking about civil rights and how our society deals with difference. Kenji Yoshino is the face and voice of the new civil rights."
--Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed "Magnificent . . . so eloquently and powerfully written I literally could not put it down. Sweeping in breadth, brilliantly argued, and filled with insight, humor, and erudition . . . This extraordinary book is many things at once: an intensely moving personal memoir; a breathtaking historical and cultural synthesis of assimilation and American equality law; an explosive new paradigm for transcending the morass of identity politics; and in parts, pure poetry. No one interested in civil rights, sexuality, discrimination--or simply human flourishing--can afford to miss it."
--Amy Chua, author of World on Fire