“Don Lee’s stories are expertly written and wonderfully readable, with a fascinating mixture of the comic and sorrowful. They are concerned with love, attachments, and separations within Asian-American families, and, as the book’s title suggests, they always touch on issues of racism and courage.”
—Charles Baxter

“I loved this book. Don Lee has a way of convincing you that something momentous hovers over the most ordinary lives. His prose is sure, his eye keen, and his stories are involving, unexpected, and provocative.” 
—Ann Beattie

"Don Lee eschews the politically correct, not so much for the politically incorrect, as for a third ground of real human complexity. This work is a pleasure."
—Gish Jen

“Nothing short of wonderful, Don Lee’s stories are surprising and wild with life, while the prose is both beautiful and exact. This collection of stories has the drive of a novel.…It embodies the complexities of its characters’ lives thoroughly and with compassion and permits the political implications of their actions to resonate on the page without authorial intrusion or comment. This is a masterful book and deserves a wide readership. I was really knocked out by it.” 
—Robert Boswell

“A wonderful book, thoughtful and a page-turner both at once. Yellow operates on several levels, including a wise and unpredictable examination of race and ethnicity in America, and a meditation on the connection between art and passion in life. For all their compelling contemporaneity, at the deepest level these stories harken back to the timeless concerns of Chekhov: fate, chance, the mystery of the human heart.” 
—Stuart Dybek