A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home - Nicole Chung (Editor) , Mensah Demary (Editor) Audiobook

Written by Nicole Chung (Editor), Mensah Demary (Editor)
Read by Cindy Kay
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

From rediscovering an ancestral village in China to experiencing the realities of American life as a Nigerian, the search for belonging crosses borders and generations. Selected from the archives of Catapult magazine, the essays in A Map Is Only One Story highlight the human side of immigration policies and polarized rhetoric, as 20 writers share provocative personal stories of existing between languages and cultures.

Victoria Blanco relates how those with family in both El Paso and Ciudad Juárez experience life on the border. Nina Li Coomes recalls the heroines of Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki and what they taught her about her bicultural identity. Nur Nasreen Ibrahim details her grandfather’s crossing of the India-Pakistan border 60 years after Partition. Krystal A. Sital writes of how undocumented status in the United States can impact love and relationships. Porochista Khakpour describes the challenges in writing (and rewriting) Iranian America.

Through the power of personal narratives, as told by both emerging and established writers, A Map Is Only One Story offers a new definition of home in the 21st century.

Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
Release date: 07-07-20