Sounds Kept in the Valley of the Tongue

My upbringing was very different from my father’s, which sometimes means we’re standing across a cultural divide. In an essay that braids my experiences teaching ESL to adults with trying to communicate with my father, I explore coming out to my parents when one of them doesn’t have the same language to discuss sexuality.

Frank McCourt Memoir Prize, Second Place. Published in The Southampton Review, Vol. XI, No. 2

Frank McCourt Memoir Prize, Second Place. Published in The Southampton Review, Vol. XI, No. 2

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