Sublime

We cared only about money.

anarchist feminist Zen Buddhist novelist nun.

Lithuania, having lost her brother to World War II, then living in a refugee camp for three years before immigrating to the famously-racist-even-to-other-kinds-of-white-people South Boston—where her father, who also happened to be her best friend, told her, “No one in our family likes us, but at least we have each other”—then promptly died in a men

Hawai‘i, for its part, immediately elected nonwhite congressmen: Hiram Fong to the Senate and Daniel Inouye, veteran of the fabled 442nd Infantry Regiment, to the House. Fong was the first Chinese American to serve in the Senate, Inouye the first Japanese American to serve in Congress. Inouye held congressional office in an unbroken stretch from Ha

“Easiest job in America,” we were told.

Judy’s mother, who has been silent this whole time, suddenly takes Judy’s cup from her. Pours her more tea. She is a visitor in their home, now; a guest. The realization makes Judy feel proud and sorrowful at the same time.

Hawaiians were “extraordinary eaters” and extraordinary dancers.9

MOSTLY, they were ashamed of us.

filled with the kind of determined cheer that masked a deeper despair.