New to North America : writing by U.S. immigrants, their children and grandchildren / Abby Bogomolny, editor ; chapter introductions by John Isbister.

The old people and the old story / Chih Hao Huang
Nameless place / Alberto Angel
Will the real island please stand up ; Attack at dawn / Opal Palmer Adisa
The occupied zone / Geneviève Duboscq
I remember Haifa being lovely but / Lyn Lifshin
He read he was / Ebrahim Wahab
Knowing the teacher / Minh Ta
In the land of the free / Sui Sin Far
When it happens it seems altogether impossible / Hayan Charara
On the mountain, the cathedral and the fast food culture / Florin Ion Firimita
The rearview mirror / Marja Hagborg
A room with a view / Qun Wang
To be Viet Kieu is to be like Santa Claus / Andrew Lam
Butterscotch marble ice cream / Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
Goddess of learning / Anjanli Banerjee
Lavendar soap / Irene Zabytko
The lawyer's story / Victor Triay
The great taco war / José Antonio Burciaga
Those on bathroom walls ; Immigration blues / William Archila
The rootless people / Quê ̃-Doãn-Dô ̃
Selections from Drops of this story / Suheir Hammad
What has become of us here? / Gregory Gumbs
The immigrant / J Yarrow
Aide-memoire / Elisaviette Artamonoff Ritchie
I worry / Sridevi Ramanathan
My American reality / Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
My story / Marcela Bruno
Yellow leaves / María de Los Ríos
The passport office / Melissa Aranzamendez.

[cont.] The immigrant story / Grace Paley
Funny-sounding names / Dan Georgakas
Queen of the West Indies / Mary McLaughlin Slechta
Chuck Pehlivanian ; From "Letters to my father" / David Kherdian
Our life with the Windsors / Valerie Miner
A secret language / Chen Lin
Barely audible / Nahid Rachlin
Everybody's business / Fran DeVenuto
Dad / Abby Bogomolny
Finally
my two dads / Marie G. Lee
Una carta a Puerto Rico = A letter to Puerto Rico / Lola Rodríguez
Dakota thunderstorm / Lawrence Snydal
Mama ; Choosing camps / Joey Garcia
Drink / Miriam Sachs Martín
Bungalow people / Charles Fishman
Spanglish / Rebecca Gutierrez
Gifts for the dead / Jennifer Lagier
Both sides of the border / Cathy Ruiz
Ellis Island / Vincent Corvino
He who serves two masters disappoints one
or both / José Antonio Burciaga
The shouting within us ; Leaving California for Ireland / Carolyn Flynn
ABCs / Deanna Tseying Fei
Yard sale / Faye Moskowitz
Gorda, Mama and Victor / Angie Cruz
The handkerchief / Elise Marie Ficarra
Remembering my Spanish / Elena Perez
Poppa's girls / Lesléa Newman
A pipe / Kirby Congdon
The cockfight / Rosemary Ybarra-Garcia
Exotic or "What beach do you hang out on?" / Tara L. Masih
From city to suburb America / Abby Bogomolny
A tapestry of hope / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
They shut my Grandmother's room door / Andrew Lam
Growing old in an alien landscape / Anne Cooper
All educated with no place to go / Tony Diaz
Histories / David Kherdian
It begins right here / Morton Marcus
No memories at all / Eva Metzger Brown
Enforcement : a tool to control the flow of labor at the U.S.-Mexico Border / María Jiménez
Ethics and interests in the immigration debate / John Isbister
Migrant hybridity / Rubén Ríos Ávila
We are the miracle / Abby Bogomolny
Your chosen land / Stanley Nelson
First writing since / Suheir Hammand
We have it / Opal Palmer Adisa.