Hyphen magazine - Asian American arts, culture, and politics

It's 1920 in Los Angeles, and Japanese immigrants are spending another restive night trying not to die an ignoble death in a foreign country.

If there was ever literary proof that the need for love and validation drives all human actions, then Peter Tieryas Liu’s haunting collection of short stories would provide it.

Despite its theological aspirations, the story of Pi has more to do with the challenges of immigration than divinity.

T Kira Madden is a writer and photographer in New York City whose fiction have been published in venues such as The Fiddleback, elimae,and Fourteen Hills.  Her short story “Deliveries” is featured in Hyphen Issue 26. We...