small patches of america - by Pranay Somayajula
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the romance of suburbia and the immigrant imagination
This piece was originally published on June 30, 2022 in Catapult. Near the end of the fall semester of my freshman year, as my eyes watered and my back began to ache from hours spent hunched over a small desk in the university library, I decided to take a break from studying for finals one December afternoon and walk across the bridge over Rock Creek. I didn’t have a particular destination in mind, only the knowledge that I was likely to lose my mind altogether if I didn’t stretch my legs and seek out a change of scenery. Just after the bridge, as the gray cement and lifeless asphalt of…
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