“Once, when I was sick for a long time and too weak to eat, she chewed my food for me and put the small pieces in my mouth to swallow.”
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Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quotes
A Runaway Sister’s Survivor Guilt
Chris J. Rice reaches out to the baby brother she left behind when she ran away from their abusive mother at 15.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Bringing Her Dad Up to Speed After Thirty Years Away
Reconnecting with her father after his release from prison, Ashley Ford must also bring him into the digital age.
Posted inEditor's Pick
My Father Spent 30 Years In Prison. Now He’s Out.
A touching personal essay in which writer Ashley Ford reveals that she and her father are happily rebuilding their relationship now that he has been released from prison after 30 years. Slowly they are getting to know each other in ways they never before had. One of the more challenging aspects: bringing him up to […]
Posted inHistory, Nonfiction, Quotes
The Tears and Tenacity of the Mothers of the Disappeared
During the ’70s and early ’80s, 30,000 people “disappeared” during Argentina’s Dirty War — including Delia’s pregnant daughter, Stella. What happened to baby Martín?
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction
Snow, Death and Politics
While snowed in on the West Coast, Frances Badalamenti grapples alone with her father’s death on the other side of what feels like a dying country.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Snow, Death and Politics
While snowed in on the West Coast, Frances Badalamenti grapples alone with her father’s death on the other side of what feels like a dying country.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
How to Disappear
For Alex DiFrancesco, coming out as transgender—even to themself—wasn’t possible without first disappearing.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
‘Hopely I’ll See You Again’: An Unlikely but Wonderful Love Affair
Noah Cho ruminates on why his blond, all-American mother chose his “barely bilingual” Korean father.
Posted inFood, Nonfiction, Quotes
What it Means to be Korean in the West
While searching for a Korean radish to make her grandmother’s soup, Vivien Lee meditates on family and food.