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“The majority of home water use takes place in the bathroom, so that’s where I started. I scaled back my showers to once a week and only flushed the toilet when the need was overwhelming. I wandered my dark little apartment doing calculations on a loop. How many gallons of water does the Livingston faucet […]
“In spite of my confidence in cooking, I’ve never brought mulukhiyah into my urban kitchen. Eating it without my family’s elbows pressed against mine doesn’t make sense to me. I know I’d feel like an impostor, inserting myself into the sacred and altering it irreparably, as I can’t help but reinvent recipes with my own improvised […]
Two friends, Hurricane Katrina, a suicide, and the pain and beauty that holds us all together.
“We still fight with the same Vietnamese stubbornness that is in our blood. I struggle with knowing far more English than Vietnamese. As you age, I fret about the ultimate silence of losing you. Although this dynamic will never go away, there have been new rhetorical tools to soften our challenges. Phrases like ‘I’m sorry’ […]
“We took turns sitting beside my dad and holding his hand. On the TV in the living room, the Tour raced.”
“I still want to feel each meal, each touch, each body I absorb into mine.”
James Jung thought he rode the winding narrow roads of the Alps to memorialize his dad. He was wrong.
Five stories that explore cultural and literary references to the tarot.
The music emanating from a storefront church in Brooklyn was a death knell: Once my grandmother heard it, her childhood was over.
