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7.28.2019

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The Cultural Truth at the Heart of the Lies in 'The Farewell' The movie, about a grandmother who isn't told she has cancer, led a Chinese American writer to rethink his own family's "good lie," rooted in a tradition that prizes harmony.

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Hollywood Doesn't Fully Represent Asian Americans Yet The Farewell and Crazy Rich Asians are signs of progress, but many Asian Americans are still left out of the picture.

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One Mother, Two Mothers, No Mother "Adoption didn't give me a forever mother. Being in reunion with my birth mother did not make me wholly mothered, either."

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Our Difficult Daughter In less than three years, Anita Jain endured incredible loss with determination. "I couldn't accomplish the simple things that came easily to others: marriage, motherhood."

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Jia Tolentino Makes Sense Out of This Nonsense Moment Journalist Jia Tolentino's essay collection, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, explores the various ways identity gets shaped -- and distorted -- in an age where everything is constantly shifting.

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Why Olympic Figure Skater Mirai Nagasu Identifies With Hannah Montana Mirai Nagasu is a bronze-medal-winning Olympic figure skater, and the first U.S. woman to land a triple axel at the Olympics in 2018.