Melody S. Gee

“While nothing can alter or supersede my first adoption, I believe my second adoption might resurrect some of the first one’s losses.”

Jia Lynn Yang tells the story of a forty-year fight over immigration in the twentieth century, asking: What makes an American and who gets to decide?

Conversion, like language acquisition, can be both comforting and bittersweet, a constant struggle toward fluency and understanding.

There’s a common thread that runs through these stories of first-generation Americans: their journeys are aided by flawed, limited, transcendent love.

I stay because the church feels enough like my own that I can say to those guilty of abuse, neglect, and coverup: I won’t let you have it.

It took me just over three years to become a Catholic. I came because there was no other place to hold the conversation about why I’m here and what I am to do.