Diversity and Reconciliation Book Study: A Map is Only One Story

Join the Diversity and Reconciliation Commission for a book study on Thursdays starting October 16 through November 6 at 7 p.m. This book study will focus on “A Map is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home” edited by Nicole Chung and Mensah DeMary.

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 twenty 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 sixty 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 twenty-first century.

The book is available for purchase on Amazon. The first discussion will be on pages 1-90.

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