Why We Cross the Border in El Paso

A Map of Lost Things: On Family, Grief, and the Meaning of Home

My Indian Passport Is a Bitch

This Hell Not Mine: On Moving from Nigeria to America

Arab Past, American Present: My Family’s Invisible History

How to Write About Your Ancestral Village

Carefree White Girls, Careful Brown Girls

Return to Partition: Finding Pakistan’s Past in India’s Present

Undocumented Lovers in America

Say It with Noodles: On Learning to Speak the Language of Food

My Grandmother’s Patois and Other Keys to Survival

The Dress

What Miyazaki’s Heroines Taught Me About My Mixed-Race Identity

How to Stop Saying Sorry When Things Aren’t Your Fault

The Wailing

Writing Letters to Mao

Dead-Guy Shirts and Motel Kids: Immigrant Life in Florida

Mourning My Birthplace

Should I Apply for Citizenship?

How to Write Iranian-America, or The Last Essay