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Chang-rae Lee

My Father’s Face

One of my clearest childhood memories is of my father washing his face. Forty-five years later, I would be washing him.

Immovable Feast

Manhattan

Playing the high life.

Daisy

How Sea Urchin Tastes

From 2002: I point to a bin and say that’s what I want—those split spiny spheres, like cracked-open meteorites.

BEANS

Coming Home Again

What a son remembers best, when all that is left are memories.

My Father’s Face

One of my clearest childhood memories is of my father washing his face. Forty-five years later, I would be washing him.

Immovable Feast

Manhattan

Playing the high life.

Daisy

How Sea Urchin Tastes

From 2002: I point to a bin and say that’s what I want—those split spiny spheres, like cracked-open meteorites.

BEANS

Coming Home Again

What a son remembers best, when all that is left are memories.