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For many immigrants, if you move here with trauma, you’re going to do what it takes to get by. You cheat. You beat your wife. You gamble. You’re a survivor and, like most survivors, you are a god-awful parent.
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Hawaiian women thus bore the responsibility of reproducing national knowledge
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
disguising military authority as island hospitality.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
As Joy Harjo reflects in her book Poet Warrior, “At some point we have to understand that we do not need to carry a story that is unbearable. We can observe the story, which is mental; feel the story, which is physical; let the story go, which is emotional; then forgive the story, which is spiritual, after which we use the materials of it to build
... See moreLidia Yuknavitch • Reading the Waves: A Memoir
THEY GAVE US new names.
Julie Otsuka • The Buddha in the Attic
And we knew it would only be a matter of time until all traces of us were gone.
Julie Otsuka • The Buddha in the Attic
Cole Haddon • Charlie Kaufman Reminds Screenwriters Who They Really Work For
Our meals, our actions, were only a shadow of what had already happened there, a lagging ghost of where Mr. Pirzada really belonged.