Talking Points: Unaccustomed Earth • May 27, 2019
Part One Unaccustomed Earth P. 5 After the two weeks Ruma received for bereavement…and Fridays but every day. I’ve heard of stories like these before. Everything from someone preparing the dead and then preparing their own, to lawyers being sued and fighting for their rights rather than someone else’s. P. 7 She couldn’t imagine tending […]
Talking Points: We Should Never Meet • May 20, 2019
Miss Lien P. 6 The adult’s reaction had been different…and feet to enrich and strengthen the family. My grandmother experienced this when my uncle was born, fathered from an affair instead of my grandfather. P. 8 The midwife spread her lips, revealing black-lacquered teeth. I wasn’t aware that Vietnamese woman also lacquered their teeth. I […]
Talking Points: Drifting House • May 14, 2019
A Temporary Marriage P. 1 But now that she had arrived, she saw that the…and the living room, Mr. Rhee’s bedroom. Always make sure you see before you buy or rent. It’s too late once you’re already there. P. 2 Even after the shame of her husband’s departure…had not allowed herself public displays of grief. […]
Talking Points: Dark Blue Suit • May 6, 2019
Dark Blue Suit P. 3 As young men-little more than boys, really…and the promise of a new start. Similar to what happened with my father. P. 4 From places as different as San…to go north and make Union scale. When my family found out that I wanted to go to Evergreen, they dropped everything and moved […]
Talking Points: The Chinaman Pacific & Frisco R.R. Co. • April 29, 2019
Railroad Standard Time P. 1 She brought me in here to the …was a paradise for conspiracy, … I’ve noticed this a lot growing up and in movies. Coming to the kitchen table as a place of comfort for hard or difficult topics. P. 2 “Your grandfather collected railroad…gives it to you now,” she said. […]
Talking Points: Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories • April 22, 2019
The High-Heeled Shoes, A Memoir P. 3 She told her boss and he called the…asked, ‘Are you the girl that was raped?” It’s really sad that a man had to call to defend her, rather than the police taking her words as valid. P. 3 My presumption had been rash. It…gestures, being enjoined to liner […]
Talking Points: Asian Americans in the Twenty-First Century: Oral Histories of First- to Fourth-Generation Americans From China, Japan, India, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Laos • April 15, 2019
Asian Americans in the Twenty-First Century: Oral Histories of First- to Fourth-Generation Americans From China, Japan, India, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Laos Introduction P. 1 Gold Mountain, or Gum San–that’s…San Francisco Harbor in 1848. I never put that much thought into why so many Asian immigrants came to the west coast. I guess now I […]
Talking Points: Alien Encounters • April 7, 2019
Introduction Annotations P. 1 We love The Goonies (1985). Still, have yet to see it but have heard many great things about this classic film. P.2 …Long Du[c]k Dong… Awful name choice for a character and apparently the name of a drink according to Urban Dictionary, “LongDuckDong is a drink that some crazy drunk Mexicans […]
