story: Are They Vampires, or Are They Just Chinese?
author: C Pam Zhang
year: 2017
where: airplane
note: from an interview about the story, Zhang said, “What’s creepy is my being haunted for years by the pressure to write a Sad Immigrant Story.”
a line: “We wear long driving gloves even when we don’t drive. And when we do: roof down, swinging over curbs, black hair flung back like silk, like bat wings, like flags snapping beware in language you’ll never understand.”
samantha Neugebauer 