You Must Give Her Freedom: An Excerpt from ON GOLD HILL
April 29th, 2024 | by Jaclyn Moyer
I watched my grandmother cup my daughter’s head in her palm, then said, “Speak to her in your language—she’s learning. Speak in Punjabi.”
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“Sadness Amid Joy”: Lakshmi Iyer’s Middle-Grade Novel Brings New Perspectives to Adoption Literature
August 27th, 2020 | by Cheryl Klein
I started from the things I am intimately familiar with. I am often at the receiving end of questions like “Why is my hair black?” or “Why is my skin different from my sister?”
That Enchanted Place: on Losing How to Do Nothing and Finding It Again
April 25th, 2017 | by Pooja Makhijani
When I was six-years-old, four six-inch tall stuffed toys arrived with a bubbling hot, deep-dish pie from the new Pizza