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Is it possible to enter into a new place without surrendering your old self and all that defines it? Having immigrated to the United States at all stages of life and from countries around the world, the women in this extraordinary collection explore this question of definition and language: the language of longing, of romance, of estrangement. Containing additional essays since it was first published in 2000 as Becoming American, American Woman holds a renewed urgency after a long decade of walls and wars, and speaks to all our engaged citizenry with quiet wisdom.