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Initiations Melody S. Gee When we returned in May 2015 from a semester of living abroad, my husband and I were imbued with a new sense of commitment and gratitude for where we lived. I was never...
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What Belongs to the Living MELODY S. GEE In each of the eight stories in Sindya Bhanoo’s Seeking Fortune Elsewhere, someone is missing—a child, a parent, a sibling, a beloved elder, a family...
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Fractured Remembrances MELODY S. GEE Like all memoirists, Ly Tran accesses her past through hazy and incomplete memories. The first chapter of her debut, House of Sticks, opens with Tran being...
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LAST WORD Two Adoptions MELODY S. GEE At nine months old, I was brought from Taiwan to my adoptive parents in Los Angeles. In the photos of us meeting under the glaring LAX terminal lights, it’s...
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BOOKS Making an American MELODY S. GEE ONE MIGHTY AND IRRESISTIBLE TIDE The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965 jia lynn yang W. W. Norton $26.95 | 336 pp. In 1966, my mother...
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Language &
Conversion
MELODY S. GEE I say I grew up bilingual, but the truth is more about
loss than duality. My earliest language was Mandarin,
spoken by caregivers...
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BOOKS Christmas Critics Melody S. Gee Iwas twelve when I first watched The Joy Luck Club on a library VHS. Amy Tan's novel (precursor to the film) had been released four years earlier, when I was...
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LAST WORD Why I Came, Why I Stay MELODY S. GEE If you count the time between attending my first Mass and receiving my first sacraments, it took me just over three years to become a Catholic. If...
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What Baptism offers
(October 2024)
