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Gwen Kincaid, Chinatown Kinkead penetrates through a thick wall that separates Chinatown from the rest of Manhattan. Driven by her father's failure to write about neighborhood, she slowly manages to make contact with its residents, finds a translator, and produces an insightful book about what lies behind the noisy, crowded world of the immigrants. Investigating every subject¡ªfrom juvenile delinquency, to the opium dens, to gambling, to the horrid living conditions, to organized crime, Kinkead covers Chinatown's every corner. "What is troubling, however, is Ms. Kinkead's emphasis on the crime, on the oppressive way of life endured by newcomers. It is not the facts of her findings, which are well supported, but the stress that leaves a reader with the impression that the web of iniquity wraps up most Chinatown life." Richard Shepard, Books of the Times, 1992 |
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