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by Trianne Harabedian
It is rare and beautiful to find a book that is simply about people. A book that presents a life, that delves deeply into the pain of one person, that shows intimately the struggles of a particular family. It is even more rare to find a book that takes all of these elements and places them within a controversial context. Such a book is not passive. But instead of shoving you into political action, it leads you to take the first steps toward compassion on your own. Fatimah Asghar’s If They Come For Us is one of these books.
If They Come For Us is a collection of poems that tell the story of a young Pakistani Muslim woman who has grown up in America. Orphaned as a child, the speaker lives with her aunt and uncle. Her life is a very American mix of cultures, where she plays with Beanie Babies, eats badam, runs track, and reads the Qur’an. By day, she attends public school and tries to fit in with her blonde classmates. By night, she is told her family’s history of Partition and running from violence. Mixed with all of this are the growing up stories of every woman.
Rather than forcing the entire book to conform to one style, Asghar allows each poem to take a form that reflects its subject. “Kal,” a gentle and dreamy poe
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Fight the Imposter: My Excursion to Publication
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Our Favorite Books of 2018
Jose Antonio Vargas, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist whose mother put him on a plane to the United States from the Philippines when he was twelve years old, came out as an undocumented immigrant in 2011.
The unbearable anxiety of living in the shadows, which he vividly describes in his memoir, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen (HarperCollins), has occasionally driven Vargas to flirt with disaster. After founding the group Define American to advocate for immigrants like himself, he once called Immigration and Customs Enforcement to ask what the government planned to do with him. (“No comment” was the answer, he writes.)
In the spirit of “radical transparency,” which became his guiding philosophy after he went public, Vargas answered truthfully to a question by an airport security agent near the border in Texas, declaring that he was in the country unlawfully. That led to his detention in a holding cell with a group of terrified Central American children. (Friends in high places helped get him out.)
While some people saw that particular episode as a self-aggrandizing stunt, in this book Vargas gives us the backstory—how his sense of displacement and the identity crisis it caused drove him t