Amy Tan, “Mother Tongue”

Richard Rodriguez, “Aria: Memoir of a Bilingual Boyhood” (This is the text that I refer to as “Public and Private Language” on our syllabus.)

Junot Diaz, “Fiesta, 1980” and “Negocios”

Jhumpa Lahiri,  “Interpreter of Maladies”

Andre Aciman, “Shadow Cities”

Marjane Satrapi, “I Must Go Home to Iran Again”

Marjane Satrapi, “Defending My Country”

Tim O’Brien, On_the_Rainy_River (1)

Z.Z. Packer, “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere”

Brock Dethier, “Revising Attitudes”

Mauricio Lima, “Migrant Children, Arriving Alone and Frightened”