“How the gift of a plant helped Emma Freud finally get to know her great-grandfather.”
family history
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Beloved Bother
A typo in my great-uncle’s obituary held the key to understanding him.
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My Grandpa, the Fascist?
“An old family album sent me on a journey through Italy’s dark past in Libya.”
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Documents
“I have no status inside or outside any clear borders unless I consider my mother’s uterus my original country.”
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Searching for Sleeper Trains
“Trains are still a part of my blood, my birthright. Through them I embrace my own kind of mobility and ambition, those two valued traits in my family line, if not quite manifested in the direction I’m heading.”
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Cresting the Wave
“A surfer comes to grips with a dark family secret born from the swells near Bob Hall Pier.”
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Grace: An Unfinished Draft, A Fire
“In Texas—Georgia—in Alabama—all over this vast canvas of fear that we call America, women will die. They won’t have time to run away. They will be great-Aunts only in name, and in death. And their deaths will disappear into a language made and remade by men to cover their shitty sins.”
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Searching for My Grandmother in The Heart Mountain Sentinel
Miyako Pleines explores the life of her grandmother within the pages of the Heart Mountain Sentinel, the newspaper of an internment camp for Japanese Americans.
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Sharing Food to Feed A Family’s Soul
Food feeds the body, but cooking for other people feeds human connections.