Book

A map is only one story : twenty writers on immigration, family, and the meaning of home / edited by Nicole Chung and Mensah Demary.

New York : Catapult, [2020]

©2020

xv, 234 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 21 cm

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, these essays highlight the human side of immigration policies and polarized rhetoric, as twenty writers share provocative personal stories of existing between languages and cultures.

Emigration and immigration.

Immigrants -- Family relationships.

Home.

Transnationalism.

Essays.

Autobiographies.

Chung, Nicole, editor.

Demary, Mensah, editor.

Container of (work): Blanco, Victoria. Why we cross the border in El Paso.

Container of (work): Osman, Jamila. A map of lost things.

Container of (work): Kapoor, Deepti. My Indian passport is a bitch.

Container of (work): Uzor, Kenechi, This hell not mine.

Container of (work): Alwan, Lauren, Arab past, American present.

Container of (work): Wong Ken, Steph, How to write about your ancestral village.

Container of (work): Barnes, Cinelle. Carefree white girls, careful brown girls.

Container of (work): Ibrahim, Nur Nasreen, Return to partition.

Container of (work): Sital, Krystal A. Undocumented lovers in America.

Container of (work): Khor, Shing Yin. Say it with noodles.

Container of (work): Taylor, Sharine, My grandmother's patois and other keys to survival.

Container of (work): Membreno, Soraya, The dress.

Container of (work): Coomes, Nina Li, What Miyazaki's heroines taught me.

Container of (work): Muddagouni, Kamna, How to stop saying sorry when things aren't your fault.

Container of (work): Owusu, Nadia, The wailing.

Container of (work): Cheng, Jennifer S., Writing letters to Mao.

Container of (work): Pollari, Niina. Dead-guy shirts and motel kids.

Container of (work): Sylvester, Natalia. Mourning my birthplace.

Container of (work): Gabriel, Bix. Should I apply for citizenship?

Container of (work): Khakpour, Porochista. How to write Iranian America; or the last essay.

Twenty writers on immigration, family, and the meaning of home

20 writers on immigration, family, and the meaning of home

Catapult magazine

Introduction / Nicole Chung and Mensah Demary -- Why we cross the border in El Paso / Victoria Blanco -- A map of lost things / Jamila Osman -- My Indian passport is a bitch / Deepti Kapoor -- This hell is not mine / Kenechi Uzor -- Arab past, American present / Lauren Alwan -- How to write about your ancestral village / Steph Wong Ken -- Carefree white girls, careful brown girls / Cinelle Barnes -- Return to partition / Nur Nasreen Ibrahim -- Undocumented lovers in America / Krystal A. Sital -- Say it with noodles / Shing Yin Khor -- My grandmother's patois and other keys to survival / Sharine Taylor -- The dress / Soraya Membreno -- What Miyazaki's heroines taught me / Nina Li Coomes -- How to stop saying sorry when things aren't your fault / Kamna Muddagouni -- The wailing / Nadia Owusu -- Writing letters to Mao / Jennifer S. Cheng -- Dead-guy shirts and motel kids / Niina Pollari -- Mourning my birthplace / Natalia Sylvester -- Should I apply for citizenship? / Bix Gabriel -- How to write Iranian America; or, the last essay / Porochista Khakpour.

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