“And in those moments when the two of them are playing dead, I quietly climb back upstairs because, as time passes and as I spot my parents doing young, lighthearted things, I'm overrun by some cruel and preoccupying sense that I'm watching the memory of them.” FamilyParentsMortality Book:Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays Source: Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
“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.” ChildrenCultureFamilyIdentityImmigrationParentsImmigrantsAssimilationDiasporaFirst Generation Book:Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays Source: Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays