Jennifer S. Cheng
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A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home
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2020
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9 editions
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The Lyric Essay as Resistance: Truth from the Margins
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House A
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Moon: Letters, Maps, Poems
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2018
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2 editions
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Hong Kong 20/20: Reflections on a borrowed place
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Invocation: an Essay
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2011
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“To have spent my life holding my hands in tightly hidden fists. To try to understand what it would mean now to hold them open. I have always felt ashamed at being witnessed in the act of wanting something I could not have”
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“Children of immigrants take their house wherever they go, its sounds patter and shake like a drawer full of dishes, cups, spoons.”
― House A
― House A
“For homeland is something embalmed in someone else’s memory, or it is a symbol, both close to the heart and a stranger you reach for in the middle of the night.”
― House A
― House A
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