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In her book Create Dangerously, Edwidge Danticat writes of the “floating homeland” of the diaspora.
https://open.substack.com/pub/aplaceforwriters/p/navel-gazing-a-space-for-outsiders
He was going to tell her everything she needed to know, because she was strong and good.
Diana Evans • Ordinary People: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019
Makiko, the one visiting me today from Osaka, is my older sister. She’s thirty-nine and has a twelve-year-old daughter named Midoriko. She raised the girl herself. For a few years after I turned eighteen, I lived with them in an apartment back in Osaka, when Midoriko was just a baby. Makiko and her husband had split up while she was pregnant, and
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Around the time the storm struck Cuba, devastating Santiago, the box of books arrived at my apartment.