What is included with this book?
The other side | p. 19 |
The old people and the old story | p. 22 |
Nameless place | p. 27 |
Will the real island please stand up | p. 30 |
Attack at dawn | p. 31 |
The occupied zone | p. 33 |
I remember Haifa being lovely but | p. 34 |
He read he was | p. 36 |
Knowing the teacher | p. 37 |
Passages | p. 39 |
In the land of the free | p. 44 |
When it happens it seems altogether impossible | p. 54 |
On the mountain, the cathedral and the fast food culture | p. 56 |
The rearview mirror | p. 61 |
A room with a view | p. 67 |
To be viet kieu is to be like Santa Claus | p. 73 |
Immigrant dreams, survival, reflection | p. 77 |
Butterscotch marble ice cream | p. 80 |
Goddess of learning | p. 85 |
Lavendar soap | p. 96 |
The lawyer's story | p. 106 |
The Great Taco War | p. 115 |
Those on bathroom walls | p. 119 |
Immigration blues | p. 121 |
The rootless people | p. 123 |
Selections from Drops of this story | p. 127 |
What has become of us here? | p. 134 |
The immigrant | p. 137 |
Aide-memoire | p. 138 |
I worry | p. 139 |
My American reality | p. 141 |
My story | p. 148 |
Yellow leaves | p. 154 |
The passport office | p. 157 |
First generation language, identity, achievement | p. 163 |
The immigrant story | p. 166 |
Funny-sounding names | p. 170 |
Queen of the West Indies | p. 176 |
Chuck pehlivanian | p. 183 |
From "letters to my father" | p. 185 |
Our life with the windsors | p. 187 |
A secret language | p. 196 |
Barely audible | p. 199 |
Everybody's business | p. 209 |
Dad | p. 211 |
Finally ... my two dads | p. 213 |
Una Carta a Puerto Rico/a letter to Puerto Rico | p. 217 |
Dakota thunderstorm | p. 219 |
Mama | p. 220 |
Choosing camps | p. 222 |
Drink | p. 223 |
Bungalow people | p. 227 |
Spanglish | p. 229 |
Gifts for the dead | p. 231 |
Both sides of the border | p. 232 |
Second generation assimilation and amnesia | p. 235 |
Ellis Island | p. 239 |
He who serves two masters disappoints one ... or both | p. 250 |
The shouting within us | p. 254 |
Leaving California for Ireland | p. 263 |
ABCs | p. 265 |
Yard sale | p. 267 |
Gorda, Mama and Victor | p. 273 |
The handkerchief | p. 280 |
Remembering my Spanish | p. 290 |
Poppa's girls | p. 294 |
A pipe | p. 299 |
The cockfight | p. 300 |
Exotic or "what beach do you hang out on?" | p. 302 |
From city to suburb America | p. 308 |
Looking to the future | p. 309 |
A tapestry of hope | p. 314 |
They shut my grandmother's room door | p. 319 |
Growing old in an alien landscape | p. 322 |
All educated with no place to go | p. 330 |
Histories | p. 332 |
It begins right here | p. 333 |
No memories at all | p. 342 |
Enforcement : a tool to control the flow of labor at the U.S.-Mexico border | p. 344 |
Ethics and interests in the immigration debate | p. 348 |
Migrant hybridity | p. 357 |
We are the miracle | p. 363 |
Your chosen land | p. 364 |
First writing since | p. 365 |
We have it | p. 371 |
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