“Unveiling Identity: How Names Bind Us in Kate Lu Sedor’s Captivating Exploration”
Did it start when my grandfather crossed the Pacific, a months-long journey that only landed him in a city full of pale, hate-filled faces? Did it start when his elder daughter, my mother, proved unable to speak the language of his ancestors without an American accent? Did it start when she found herself in an arranged marriage to my father, a man ten years her junior who had only ever known Guangzhou, before the roads of his village — my grandfather’s village — were paved, before the Chinese government forcibly moved his family into the heart of Guangdong’s chief megacity?
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