The comfort of Lunar New Year in isolation
Feb 05, 2021
3 minutes
By Beth Nguyen
LUNAR NEW YEAR MIGHT BRING TO MIND FESTIVALS AND FIREWORKS, BUT I’VE ALWAYS ASSOCIATED IT WITH A KIND OF ISOLATION. Long before the pandemic, long before the rest of America learned about sriracha and pho, I grew up in a Vietnamese refugee family in a mostly white town in Michigan.
We knew what it meant to be at once invisible and too visible. But at least once a year,
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