'This Is One Way To Dance' Explores A Life Straddling Congruent Realities
Essayist Sejal Shah brings important, refreshing, and depressing observations about what it means to have dark skin and an "exotic" name, when the only country you've ever lived in is America.
In 1921, my grandmother moved from the Yorkville neighborhood of Manhattan to Rochester, New York to get married. There she lived until her death at age 109, outlasting my mother by eight years.
Nana lived in a high rise close to Mom's childhood home, a home I came to know after Mom died. Rochester was a stark and lonely place for me.
Sejal Shah's Rochester is altogether different. In her finely wrought, debut book of essays,, Rochester teems with
