Orange Daughter Dreams: A Micro Essay from an Unknown Chinese Daughter
An adoptee writes for her unknown birth mother as she seeks her place in the world, with the history she does not know and the history she holds in her body.
Vera Jiā Xī Mancini
Vera Jiā Xī Mancini is a proud Chinese American woman of the Zhuang ethnic minority, born in Pingnan and brought to the United States as an infant by an adoptive white family. She is a junior at Smith College, with a Women's History major and a Book Studies concentration. Vera finds healing through words.