A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing

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

Sexy means loving someone you donot know.

On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies and Planters peanuts and chopped red onion in bowl.

She has given birth to vagabonds. She is the keeper of all these names and numbers now, numbers she once knew by heart, numbers and addresses her children no longer remember.

The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life.

A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing