Description: A blog by Nataliya Apanovich about immigration, the American Dream, and finding a way home. Nataliya is a Belarusian immigrant.
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"...being a foreigner ... is a sort of lifelong pregnancy—a perpetual wait, a constant burden, a continuous feeling out of sorts. Like pregnancy, being a foreigner ... is something that elicits the same curiosity from strangers, the same combination of pity and respect." - Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
Search Log in / Sign up Nataliya Apanovich May 16 5 min America is broken “You’ll all pass,” I announced to my students at the beginning of the semester. “I want to live,” I added, giggling. I was joking, but I...
Nataliya Apanovich Oct 10, 2022 5 min On Water Our life made it easy not to use water and because everyone lived the same, there was nothing unusual about our relationship to it.