E. J. Koh was 15 when her mother returned to South Korea and left her behind in California. In her memoir The Magical Language of Others, she grapples with forgiveness, reconciliation, and legacy as she reads her mother’s letters seeking absolution and love. Prize-winning poet Marcelo Hernandez Castillo’s Children of the Land relays his experiences growing up undocumented in the United States, and his attempt as a young man to build a future in a nation that denied his existence. They’re joined by Rebecca Friedman, director of the Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab at FIU and author of Modernity, Domesticity and Temporality in Modern Russia: Time at Home.
