(teaser) sunmi - gashina
just peachy
san diego, california
by nijntjee
“In America, when I was young, my parents always seemed to be in mourning for something. Now I understand: it must have been the language…They couldn’t wait for a letter to arrive from Calcutta, written in Bengali. They read it a hundred times. They saved it. Those letters evoked their language and conjured a life that had disappeared. When the language one identifies with is far away, one does everything possible to keep it alive. Because words bring back everything: the place, the people, the life, the streets, the light, the sky, the flowers, the sounds.”
- Jhumpa Lahiri, In Other Words