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A Map Is Only One Story

I just finished this book, A Map is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family and the Meaning of Home. I LOVED it so much that I shared some of my favorite parts with you in my previous posts. However, there were two personal narratives that I could not find online. The first one is : How to Stop Saying Sorry When Things Aren't Your Fault by Kamna MuddagouniThe second one is: The Wailing by Nadia Owusu If you ever find a chance to read those passages, don't miss ...

Dead-Guy Shirts and Motel Kids: Immigrant Life in Florida by Niina Pollari

After immigrating from Finland, I adopted Florida and all its freaks, swindlers, addicts, and charismatic criminals.One afternoon in the nineties, our friend Angie showed up at our house in Palm Beach Gardens wearing an oversized, secondhand polo shirt. Angie was closer to my sister’s age than she was to mine, but when we were kids, we cohered as a group while our parents wasted the weekends away. Her tiny frame was swimming in the shirt, which to me looked chic—it was retro ...

What Miyazaki's Heroines Taught Me by Nina Li Coomes

What Miyazaki’s Heroines Taught Me About My Mixed-Race Identity“Miyazaki tells us something about bodies in flux: There is no easy answer; only the conflict, the question.”One summer day when I was nine, I climbed into a hair stylist’s chair and asked them to cut my hair to my ears. Until that point, I’d always had a head of long hair tumbling over my shoulder, useful for coquettish tossing when I imagined myself as Snow White or Cinderella. I had never worn short ...