In this critical coming-of-age story, the author describes the everyday lives of her family and other political refugees, tallying their cultural misunderstandings and unspooling the costs of starting over.Highly attuned to her parents’ sacrifices and the ways in which these make her different from her peers, the author charts her family’s gradual socio-economic rise, as well as her own rise as an educated intellectual in a culture foreign to the one she was born to. This aut