The Importance of Cue Cutting

Ava Chin's new book Mott Street is a Chinese-American family story of exclusion and homecoming. The author cites an editorial from 1885 that really sets the tone for the kind of anger and prejudice that was happening against Chinese people in America at that time. Of all the stories Ava details, it isn't the cruelest or the most violent. For me, it's the most personal because of the connection I have to my grandma's hair,. When she was a few years older than me, she wanted to cut off her long hair. And my grandpa loved her hair. So it became a tradition that before she cut it short, she put it in a braid