“Nobody likes these things life hands us. But part of becoming a man is understanding how to face them head on instead… — Mira Jacob Becoming a man 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… — Mira Jacob Desire 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 High school 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… — Mira Jacob Fall in love 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… — Mira Jacob Food 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,… — Mira Jacob Immigrants 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 Another world 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… — Mira Jacob Immigrants 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… — Mira Jacob Grief 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… — Mira Jacob Immigrants 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… — Mira Jacob Dreams 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… — Mira Jacob Communication Copy Share Image
“Of course he had a female following. Was there anything college girls found sexier than being told what to think?” — Mira Jacob College Copy Share Image
“Thank God for Saturday mornings. A reprieve from the familiar, a day unworn by routines. Anything was possible.” — Mira Jacob Good morning Copy Share Image
“The band in the ballroom announced the cover of a special request, and after a pause, the woman's voice sang out the… — Mira Jacob Dance floor Copy Share Image
“She shuddered. Pee talkers baffled her. How could they do that? Give you no opportunity to not listen?” — Mira Jacob Copy Share Image
