Day: February 8, 2021
Lost Item Report of a Chinese Immigrant
by Yunya Yang
Yunya Yang was born and raised in Central China and moved to the US when she was eighteen. Her work has appeared and is forthcoming in trampset, Bending Genres, The Los Angeles Review, among others. She lives in Chicago with her husband Chris and cat Ichiro. Find her on Twitter @YangYunya.
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What surprising, fascinating stuff can you tell us about the origin, drafting, and/or final version of “Lost Item Report of a Chinese Immigrant”? I’ve wanted to write about immigration, but none of the stories I wrote worked out. I had two (failed) stories with the line about the visa stamps in my passport, and neither of them quite captured what I was trying to say. I got this idea from a lost form on the United Airlines website. I’ve always worried about losing my luggage in transit between China and the US. I realized that what I’m hoping to convey is a sense of loss, a loss that goes both ways, and an immigrant is somebody in between, neither fish nor fowl.
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