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.
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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.
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‘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.
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The Loneliness Recipe
In searching for a Korean radish called mu in a bid to make her grandmother’s soup, Vivien Lee meditates on family and food — what it means to be Korean in the West — where the burning desire for individuality is at odds with the communal approach to life, food, and family in the East.
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In the Shadow of a Fairy Tale: Overcoming the Evil Stepmother Stereotype
Leslie Jamison explores the fraught role of stand-in parent as she considers her new life as a stepmother to a six-year-old.
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In the Shadow of a Fairy Tale
Leslie Jamison is stepmother to Lily, age 6. Lily’s mother died of cancer just before Lily turned three. Jamison explores fairy tale stepmothers both as the rare “port in the storm” and the much more common “stock villain” — stereotyped by cruelty, abuse, and withholding affection — as she reflects on her relationship with Lily […]
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The High-Water Mark: The Battle of Gettysburg, the Jersey Shore, and the Death of My Father
Contemplating history, family, and today’s America, Dane A. Wisher tells the story of spreading his father’s ashes on the battlefield at Gettysburg National Park and coming to terms with his life and death.
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This Is God’s Property
Kelsey Munger shares the story of a childhood spent being vigilant against the demons, witches, and werewolves her parents believed were stalking their family.