Brown, Bearded, and Barely American

a brief memoir of an immigrant’s adolescence

This piece was written in late 2018, during a time where my family’s struggles with immigration had seemed to reach its peak. I’ve left it unedited from that time so I can remember the emotions, raw and unfiltered, that came with it. There are many, many others with similar stories; I only hope to add to those voices.

An apprehensive stranger in his home, an ill-fortuned phenom among his peers, an alienated reprobate to his nation — living this past decade in limbo has…