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White Mirror in Baltimore County
No one in my family knew Freddie Gray. Yet each of us drew a composite sketch of the dead man.
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How to Write About Your Ancestral Village
You buy a one-way ticket to Beijing, and tell your mother you are traveling alone to figure out if China might be the answer.
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Reconciling with Less Home: Between Haiti and Me
How did I come to the point of romanticizing a home I could not even identify?
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Für Bess: On Neighbors, Music Parties, and Growing Up
“It was that closeness that led me to notice the gaps that separated us.”
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How I Lost My Hometown
The day after the election, the last threads of attachment I felt to home frayed and finally broke.
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Eminent Domain
“None of the things we thought were ours actually belonged to us.”