INVISIBLE WORK: BILINGUALISM, LANGUAGE CHOICE, AND CHILDREARING IN INTERMARRIED FAMILIES. Toshie Okita. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2002. Pp. vi + 274. $102.00 cloth.

In recent years, studies of bilingualism and SLA have paid increasing attention to the contexts in which languages are acquired and used. This broadened perspective has led scholars to combine insights from a number of different disciplines. In this highly original study, Okita combines insights from studies of families, ethnicity, and bilingualism to examine the factors that promote or inhibit Japanese maintenance by the children of British fathers and Japanese mothers living in Britain. The result is a finely nuanced study that illustrates the difficulties of maintaining a minority language in a setting that provides few sources of institutional support.