Immigrant Secrets Quotes

“We look to the stories of our origins to make sense of things, to remember who we are. The role of origin stories...is to enlighten the present by recalling the past. Origin stories are rarely straightforward history. Over the years, they morph into a colorful amalgam of truth and myth, nostalgia and cautionary tale, the shades of their significance brought out by the particular light of a particular moment. —Rachel Held Evans”
― John Mancini, Immigrant Secrets: The Search for My Grandparents