My Heart of Rice by Ashley C. Lanuza

Author:Ashley C. Lanuza [Lanuza, Ashley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781641372817
Publisher: New Degree Press
Published: 2020-02-18T20:00:00+00:00

birthplace

Where are you from?

and I tell my truth.

No, where are you really from?

and I respond with honesty.

Aggravated, the woman

throws her hands in the air.

For her appeasement, I reply,

My parents are from

and she accepts that as my home, too.

Her insistence communicates:

You are not American.

You are other.

In my mind, all I know is America.

I don’t know other.

This question, if directed at you

would have been a simple answer,

while my response required

the invalidation of my being.

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