A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir

Forgiveness and faith are like writing a story, they take time, effort, revisions.

The bravest phrase a woman can say is “I don’t know.

Two women in love confirms for me that there is a love that can push you beyond what everyone else says is possible. I

We have…Settled into a region called “don’t ask don’t tell” and it is hard, i imagine for people who have not experienced this to understand the weight of silence and how the absence of language can feel like a death

Love will work no matter what job i have, what nationality I claim, or what street i live on. It will work even if i kiss a woman. and it does.

And it is hard, I imagine, for people who have not experienced this to understand the weight of that silence and how the absence of language can feel like a death. Often

By virtue of their English and the light color of their faces, these teachers determine the words that creep into my dreams at night. I envy them. I want what they have. I want my words to matter.

My future is always plural. It is always about my mother and my father and my aunties and my sister.

Forgiveness and faith are like writing a story. They take time, effort, revisions. When

As much as I hate to admit it, books have limitations. Over

If I could sum up the lives of people like me—people whose parents don’t write books, whose aunties and cousins don’t step onto college campuses except for the time we graduate—I would write our lives with that one phrase: and then, I turn the page. I