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Category: Durga Chew-Bose

Durga Chew-Bose

Change, I’ve come to understand, rises up like nausea: the promise of relief is what makes it bearable.

Durga Chew-Bose

What tethers me to my parents is the unspoken dialogue we share about how much of my character is built on the connection I feel to the world they were raised in but that I’ve only experienced through photos, visits, food. It’s not mine and yet, I get it. First-generation kids, I’ve always thought, are the personification of déjà vu.

assimilation, children, culture, diaspora, family, first-generation, identity, immigrants, immigration, parents

Durga Chew-Bose

What tethers me to my parents is the unspoken dialogue we share about how much of my character is built on the connection I feel to the world they were raised in but that I’ve only experienced through photos, visits, food. It’s not mine and yet, I get it. First-generation kids, I’ve always thought, are the personification of déjà vu.

assimilation, children, culture, diaspora, family, first-generation, identity, immigrants, immigration, parents