My father’s is the classic immigrant story. He is the first in his family to go to high school and college and graduate school and America. He is the first to become an engineer. Extraordinary, some people have said when he speaks now of how he got here. Through hard work, he says, and the learning of advanced math. Amazing, others have said. But such progress he’s made in one generation that to progress beyond him, I feel as if I must leave America and colonize the moon.
