Hyphen magazine - Asian American arts, culture, and politics

The Good Daughter is that rare memoir so rich in detail and dialogue that one feels as if they are voraciously flipping through a fiction novel -- dramatic and sweeping, Lili’s life rivals that of a Dickensian orphan child.

In writing about India, Eleni Gage hasn't been able to avoid some of the more obvious traps. Her novel falls into the shopworn travelogue theme in which India is exotic and therefore can school non-natives in the practice of becoming decent human...

Forgotten Country is an admirable first novel and a good read, but feels like the work of a writer still searching for her own genuine voice and vision.

Laurel Nakadate: photographer, video artist, surreal storyteller
Meeting the Stranger’s World, Issue 12

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