If You Could See the Sun

by Ann Liang

Frustration boils inside me as the words jumble around in my mouth. There’s no correlation between fluency and intelligence, I know that, but it’s hard not to feel dumb when you can’t even string together a complete sentence in your mother tongue.

Mama found a job as a janitor at the nearest hospital, the closest thing she could get to her old nursing career in China,

To live well, you must learn to see yourself first.