TY - BOOK AU - Chung,Nicole AU - Demary,Mensah AU - Blanco,Victoria AU - Osman,Jamila AU - Kapoor,Deepti AU - Uzor,Kenechi AU - Alwan,Lauren AU - Wong Ken,Steph AU - Barnes,Cinelle AU - Ibrahim,Nur Nasreen AU - Sital,Krystal A. AU - Khor,Shing Yin AU - Taylor,Sharine AU - Membreno,Soraya AU - Coomes,Nina Li AU - Muddagouni,Kamna AU - Owusu,Nadia AU - Cheng,Jennifer S. AU - Pollari,Niina AU - Sylvester,Natalia AU - Gabriel,Bix AU - Khakpour,Porochista TI - A map is only one story: twenty writers on immigration, family, and the meaning of home SN - 9781948226783 PY - 2020///] CY - New York PB - Catapult KW - Emigration and immigration KW - Immigrants KW - Family relationships KW - Home KW - Transnationalism KW - Essays KW - lcgft KW - Autobiographies N1 - Introduction; Nicole Chung and Mensah Demary --; Why we cross the border in El Paso; Victoria Blanco --; A map of lost things; Jamila Osman --; My Indian passport is a bitch; Deepti Kapoor --; This hell is not mine; Kenechi Uzor --; Arab past, American present; Lauren Alwan --; How to write about your ancestral village; Steph Wong Ken --; Carefree white girls, careful brown girls; Cinelle Barnes --; Return to partition; Nur Nasreen Ibrahim --; Undocumented lovers in America; Krystal A. Sital --; Say it with noodles; Shing Yin Khor --; My grandmother's patois and other keys to survival; Sharine Taylor --; The dress; Soraya Membreno --; What Miyazaki's heroines taught me; Nina Li Coomes --; How to stop saying sorry when things aren't your fault; Kamna Muddagouni --; The wailing; Nadia Owusu --; Writing letters to Mao; Jennifer S. Cheng --; Dead-guy shirts and motel kids; Niina Pollari --; Mourning my birthplace; Natalia Sylvester --; Should I apply for citizenship?; Bix Gabriel --; How to write Iranian America; or, the last essay; Porochista Khakpour N2 - 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, these essays highlight the human side of immigration policies and polarized rhetoric, as twenty writers share provocative personal stories of existing between languages and cultures ER -