Immigration Anxiety: Tamar Merin's “What Are You Looking At?”

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Immigration Anxiety: Tamar Merin's “What Are You Looking At?”

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Tamar Merin is a writer, critic, and literary scholar. In her story “What Are You Looking At?”, the prosaic act of a mother and son going for ice cream becomes an exploration of the anxiety of immigration, the shock of living in a new land. Text: “What are you Looking At?” by Tamar Merin. Translated by Ari Leiberman.

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Nov 22, 2017

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