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A Map Is Only One Story Twenty Writers on Immigration Family and the Meaning of HomebyNicole ChungEditorMensah Demary Editor

A Map Is Only One Story Twenty Writers on Immigration Family and the Meaning of HomebyNicole ChungEditorMensah Demary Editor


From rediscovering an ancestral village in China to experiencing the realities of American life as a Nigerian the search for belonging crosses borders and generations. Selected from the archives of Catapult magazine the essays in A Map Is Only One Story highlight the human side of immigration policies and polarized rhetoric as twenty writers share provocative personal sFrom rediscovering an ancestral village in China to experiencing the realities of American life as a Nigerian the search for belonging crosses borders and generations. Selected from the archives of Catapult magazine the essays in A Map Is Only One Story highlight the human side of immigration policies and polarized rhetoric as twenty writers share provocative personal stories of existing between languages and cultures.Victoria Blanco relates how those with family in both El Paso and Ciudad Juárez experience life on the border. Nina Li Coomes recalls the heroines of Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki and what they taught her about her bicultural identity. Nur Nasreen Ibrahim details her grandfathers crossing of the India-Pakistan border sixty years after Partition. Krystal A. Sital writes of how undocumented status in the United States can impact love and relationships. Porochista Khakpour describes the challenges in writing (and rewriting) Iranian America. Through the power of personal narratives as told by both emerging and established writers A Map Is Only One Story offers a new definition of home in the twenty-first century.(less)