“The band in the ballroom announced the cover of a special request, and after a pause, the woman's voice sang out the breathy first line of Etta James's "At Last." Chairs barked as guests rose to greet the champion of… — Mira Jacob Copy Share Image
“Nobody likes these things life hands us. But part of becoming a man is understanding how to face them head on instead of running… — Mira Jacob Copy Share Image
“Amina would not know herself until years later, when she understood what it was to long for someone, to ache for their smell and… — Mira Jacob Copy Share Image
“Was it always this way? Did everyone from high school end up looking like weird facsimiles of other people's parents?” — Mira Jacob Copy Share Image
“Gina Rodgers raised her hand, triggering a class-wide bristle. Everyone wanted to impress Mr. Tipton, but it was Gina who always raised her hand… — Mira Jacob Copy Share Image
“Cooking was a talent of her mother's that Amina often thought of as an evolutionary way for Kamala to survive herself with friendships intact.… — Mira Jacob Copy Share Image
“Mindy Lujan with her feathered hair, bullying blue-lined eyes, and potty mouth that rivaled Akhil's, managing to use fuck as a verb, an adjective,… — Mira Jacob Copy Share Image
“Why do fathers look ungainly in their daughter's bedrooms? Like mythical beasts wandered in from the forest of another world?” — Mira Jacob Copy Share Image
“Why is it that fathers so often ensure the outcome they are trying to avoid? Is their need to dominate so much stronger than… — Mira Jacob Copy Share Image
“And even if Amina didn't yet know what it was to love like that, to burn until your spine has no choice but to… — Mira Jacob Copy Share Image
“An hour later, Amina stood at a pay phone in a mall hallway, where poop and perfume and the grease from the food court… — Mira Jacob Copy Share Image
“Somehow, all the talk about tenure and anthropology had given her visions of a thick-walled, libraried adobe, the kind of place that was covered… — Mira Jacob Copy Share Image
“Like many people whose lives had formed around a particularly painful incident, she had grown used to providing ellipses around the event of her… — Mira Jacob Copy Share Image
