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A Map Is Only One Story

Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home

by Cindy Kay
Nicole Chung
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From rediscovering an ancestral village in China to experiencing the realities of American life as a Nigerian, the search for belonging crosses borders and generations. Selected from the archives of Catapult magazine, the essays in A Map Is Only One Story highlight the human side of immigration policies and polarized rhetoric, as twenty writers share provocative personal stories of existing between languages and cultures. Victoria Blanco relates how those with family in both El Paso and Ciudad Juárez experience life on the border. Nina Li Coomes recalls the heroines of Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki and what they taught her about her bicultural identity. Nur Nasreen Ibrahim details her grandfather's crossing of the India-Pakistan border sixty years after Partition. Krystal A. Sital writes of how undocumented status in the United States can impact love and relationships. Porochista Khakpour describes the challenges in writing (and rewriting) Iranian America. Through the power of personal narratives, as told by both emerging and established writers, A Map Is Only One Story offers a new definition of home in the twenty-first century.

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  • Release date

    February 11, 2020

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781696600316
      • File size: 163054 KB
      • Duration: 05:39:41

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Chinese-Thai-American narrator Cindy Kay delivers a powerful performance in this audiobook. With daily negative messages from popular media, it can be easy to classify humans by categories such as refugees and immigrants without seeing the individuals behind them. In this compilation from CATAPULT magazine, the human aspects of those who have taken on those classifications shine through as 20 individual writers describe their definitions of home, immigration, and family. Kay emphasizes the sometimes lyrical nature of the short biographical pieces. Each story is unique, and Kay captures both great sadness and great joy. Her strong delivery makes it easy for listeners to find themselves relating to these stories from beginning to end. V.B. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      October 21, 2019
      Catapult magazine editor and memoirist Chung (All You Can Ever Know) and Catapult founder Demary (coauthor, Let Love Have the Last Word) show how “literature can provide a pathway to greater empathy and understanding” in this collection of essays gleaned from the magazine’s archives and focused on the theme of immigration to the U.S. (and, in one piece, Canada). It features writers from the world over, including both documented and undocumented immigrants, as well as first-, second-, and third-generation Americans. Some contributors, such as Sharine Taylor writing about her Jamaican immigrant grandmother’s sly use of patois, focus on older relatives (“Patois was our secret, allowing us to be in the English world and then escape to Jamaica through language”); others confront past and future choices with ambivalence (“Should I—an immigrant to, a writer in, and a critic of the United States—apply for citizenship?” Bix Gabriel asks at the end of an essay detailing her odyssey from India and concern over the Trump presidency). Other essayists relate encounters with racism, clueless natives, and fellow migrants. This collection is a vital corrective to discussions of global migration that fail to acknowledge the humanity of migrants themselves.

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