I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.

Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it.

Relationships do not preclude issues of morality.

I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.

She had listened to him, partly sympathetic, partly horrified. For it was one thing for her to reject her background, to be critical of her family's heritage, another to hear it from him.

A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing

Isolation offered its own form of companionship