The wrenching issues facing IMMIGRANTS, including the sense of living a secret life, emerged into the public eye two decades ago.
Every immigrant has a double identity and a double vision, being suspended between an old and a new home, an old and a new self. The very notion of a new home, of course, is in a sense as impossible as the notion of new parents. Parents are who they are; home is what it is. Home is the wallpaper above the bed, the family dinner table, the church bells in the morning, the small fears that come with dusk,...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In