What tethers me to my parents is the unspoken dialogue we share about how much of my character is built on the connection I feel to the world they were raised in but that I've only experienced through photos, visits, food. It's not mine and yet, I get it. First-generation kids, I've always thought, are the personification of déjà vu.
Durga Chew-Bose, Too Much and Not the Mood
assimilation, children, culture, diaspora, family, first-generation, identity, immigrants, immigration, parents