Ordinary disasters: how I stopped being a model minority

Intimacy. The Monk and the Soldier

Striving

Fictions and Frictions of interracial love

Mothers and daughters. Letter to Lin Tsu-Ai, my grandmother

Irascible love

The look

Things not to do to my daughter when I’m old

Beauty for the unbeautiful. Beauty queen

Joan Didion talks to Marie Kondo about packing and self-respect

“American girl”

Asian woman is/not robot

Asian America. Southern Chinese

Unexceptional states

Affirmative action

Then, Atlanta

Asian pessimism

Good-byes. Trip to Disney

Passing vignettes

How I keep losing my father

On aging

Mothering a son

Praying.