Tag: memoir
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The best book I read this summer: Where the Wind Leads
I was born in Vietnam, but I was not Vietnamese; I was raised in America, but I was not American. I grew up Asian in character but American in culture, a citizen but always refugee. I had no lessons from the past to guide me, no right way to do things in the present, and…
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Where I was on 9/11
I thought it was an accident. When my high school principal announced over the PA system that the World Trade Center had been hit by a plane. I distinctly remember hearing someone in the back of the class mutter, “terrorism.” It’s an interesting juxtaposition sixteen years later. In some ways, it seems like a lifetime…
Josh Benner 