“My Japanese-American grandma spent her final years on a hunting preserve in Alabama. She taught me how to be comfortable as an anomaly in the South.”
Personal Essay
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Car Talk
“I’d kept up my license, but now I needed a car. What kind of car? As in the usual run of things—a congenital tilt towards irreality, an obdurate wistfulness—I pined for something that did not exist: the car at the end of the mind.”
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Beloved Bother
A typo in my great-uncle’s obituary held the key to understanding him.
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Mal à la Tête
“My neurologist says anything can be a headache. Or rather, a headache can cause anything, since all sensations start in the brain.”
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My Father Tries to Teach Me His Map of Chicago
“He’s been the cartographer all along, steadfastly believing I’d learn to read his directions.”
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On Brotherhood and Blindness
“In a hospital in the heart of the British empire, two young patients from worlds away strike up a friendship.”
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My Grandpa, the Fascist?
“An old family album sent me on a journey through Italy’s dark past in Libya.”