Immigrant, Montana Quotes

“The truth, Your Honor, is that the immigrant feels at home in guilt... the guilt of having abandoned my parents. A slippery slope, this. My father, my mother, my motherland, my mother tongue.”
― Amitava Kumar, Immigrant, Montana

“The nostalgia I had come to treasure was a hypertrophied sense of the past as a place, a place with street signs and a figure atop a staircase that I recognized.”
― Amitava Kumar, Immigrant, Montana