I wasn't at all prepped for how this made me feel in the middle of my wor day tbh. Powerful story, ty for sharing it
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well said!
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After I read it I thought about what you've written about the commodification of personal narratives.
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This is the kind of writing that can happen when a writers great personal story isn't exploited for a few clicks when they're on the come up
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@soledadobrien shared it too, and i am just floored. thank you. the part where he wonders what would have been if she read/write young. wow.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Over the last year there's been some phenomenal writing about the impossibly complicated situations of Filipino migrants & immigrants
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This Rachel Aviv piece, about the intimacies & sacrifices of caregivers who live two to a bed in Queenshttp://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/04/11/the-sacrifices-of-an-immigrant-caregiver …
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My grandmother was given to relatives by her mother to be a young house servant for years. This is so hard to read.
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In Burma, not the Philippines, but seems to be a similar set up...
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She looks like my cousin.
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