White Hard Hat

One day when I was in high school, I noticed there appeared an old photograph on the dining room table at my grandparents’ house. Thin and brittle, it was pressed under the glass cover of the table and looked out of place against the red plaid tablecloth. It showed a family of four. There was

This piece is part of our Winter 2022 print issue, available for purchase here.

Not that life was all that bad in France compared to the rest of Europe but we came to America with dreams of making it new. And in some ways we did. The problem, though, was that to fit in you always felt this pressure to be something that you weren’t. There were these anthologies