When Your Immigrant Mother Fights For Your Education—And You Fail
With words, spelled correctly or not, I could say exactly how I felt: like my head was a ball of snakes, like something extraordinary for once.
Liam Curley is a writer from Wallkill, New York and a graduate of Ithaca College. He works at Small Press Distribution and the Oakland Public Library and volunteers with 826 Valencia. He was the employee of the month in July of 2009 at a 24-hour McDonald’s on the southbound side of the New York State Thruway. He lives in Oakland, California.
Follow him on Twitter at @liammcurley and read more at liamcurley.com.
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