Shame And Pride: I Placed My Mother On A Pedestal
Her first night in America, the land of the free, the land of limitless possibility, she slept in a Greyhound bus station.
He Asked Me Where I’m From And Patted My Arm Like I Was A Child
Friends who have said to me, with such genuine sentiment in their eyes and words, “You’re actually so pretty for an Asian.”
Smiling In Another Country As An American
Earlier this summer, when I first introduced myself to one of the masters students who works in the same room as I do, he said to me, “You do seem American. Americans are always so… happy.”