My father never tells of miracles, escapes, and survivals. Instead he tells his life, and the history of his country in which it is inextricably entangled, in the form of mild jokes and anecdotes during unassuming conversations. Perhaps he no longer takes tragedy as seriously as others—but it is more likely that the mind naturally [...]

My parents moved five times in the first ten years of their marriage. My younger brother’s birth was sandwiched somewhere between moves number four and five, four being the one that sent us sailing up the coast from Los Angeles into the San Francisco Bay, and five being the one that shot us into [...]

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