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4.31 AVERAGE
4.31 AVERAGE
I couldn’t put this one down- there is such a wealth of uniquely American experience here.
I absolutely love essays, so it was also wonderful to read- since there were so many authors, no two essays were completely alike and some were very visually creative too.
As someone who is not indigenous, nor a recent immigrant, nor someone who would be assumed as such, I think this compilation was especially powerful. For those like me, I think it really can be too easy to believe that everyone’s experience in this mixed up American culture resembles your own, because that is what the idea of the singular “American dream” pushes us to do.
This book offered individual reflections on each author’s unique, actual lived experience as it contrasts with this ideal of a singular “American” culture.
I absolutely love essays, so it was also wonderful to read- since there were so many authors, no two essays were completely alike and some were very visually creative too.
As someone who is not indigenous, nor a recent immigrant, nor someone who would be assumed as such, I think this compilation was especially powerful. For those like me, I think it really can be too easy to believe that everyone’s experience in this mixed up American culture resembles your own, because that is what the idea of the singular “American dream” pushes us to do.
This book offered individual reflections on each author’s unique, actual lived experience as it contrasts with this ideal of a singular “American” culture.
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A great collection of essays detailing the personal stories of immigrants and their families in the US today. There is humour, heartbreak and hope weaved through most of these stories.
My favourite essays in this book include:
-On the Blackness of the Panther by Teju Cole
-How Not to Be by Priya Minhas
-Chooey-Booey and Brown by Tejal Rao
-Dispatches from the Language Wars by Daniel Jose Older
-Juana Azurdy vs Christopher Columbus by Adrián Villar Rojas and Sebastián Villar Rojas
-Skittles by Fatima Farheen Mirza
-The Long Answer by Yann Demange
My favourite essays in this book include:
-On the Blackness of the Panther by Teju Cole
-How Not to Be by Priya Minhas
-Chooey-Booey and Brown by Tejal Rao
-Dispatches from the Language Wars by Daniel Jose Older
-Juana Azurdy vs Christopher Columbus by Adrián Villar Rojas and Sebastián Villar Rojas
-Skittles by Fatima Farheen Mirza
-The Long Answer by Yann Demange
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