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“I want [my daughter] to grow up in a society where she will have a comfortable and important place.”
Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
We gave birth to babies that were American citizens and in whose names we could finally lease land.
Julie Otsuka • The Buddha in the Attic
Our culture loves a binary, and we tend to view things through strict divisions—black or white, right or wrong, true or false—rather than with nuance, when two seemingly opposing concepts can be true at the same time. Able-bodied and disabled is a widely accepted binary, though it is possible to pass through one on the way to the other, to experien
... See moreAngela Garbes • Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
“For the last twenty years, until recently, Jhumpa Lahiri’s stories were the template of ethnic fiction that supports the fantasy of Asian American immigrants as compliant strivers. The fault lies not in Lahiri herself, who I think is an absorbing storyteller, but in the publishing industry that used to position her books as the “single story” on i
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Ryka Aoki • Light From Uncommon Stars
Jane set the cake down on the table in front of Ruby just as the birthday song reached its warbling crescendo. It was a cheap cake from Baskin-Robbins, Frozen-themed. She worried it was a tell that this house, even this shirt, didn’t belong to her. But maybe it was the opposite—maybe it made them seem more ensconced in this life, better, cooler—the
... See moreDanzy Senna • Colored Television (A GMA Book Club Pick): A Novel
She ate one meal a day, at lunchtime—ham-and-cheese roll-ups drizzled with honey. Otherwise, she drank can after can of Diet Coke in the morning, and then about midafternoon she switched to mango margaritas, and the margaritas saw her out. She said this was pandemic behavior, but the only kitchen equipment she brought with her when she moved in was
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