Melody S. Gee

Melody S. Gee is a freelance writer and editor, and the author of The Dead in Daylight and Each Crumbling House. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with her husband and daughters.

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Fractured Remembrance

Two memoirs explore the complicated relationships of daughters and their immigrant parents.

By Melody S. Gee

September 22, 2021

Nonfiction

Immigration

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A Hybrid Voice

For the novelist Xiaolu Guo, telling stories in English is an ongoing project to capture a life lived across China, Europe, and the United States.

By Melody S. Gee

April 18, 2021

Fiction

Asia

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Making an American

Jia Lynn Yang tells the story of a forty-year fight over immigration in the twentieth century, asking: What makes an American and who gets to decide?

September 7, 2020

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Language & Conversion

Conversion, like language acquisition, can be both comforting and bittersweet, a constant struggle toward fluency and understanding.

February 14, 2020

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Tales of Assimilation

There’s a common thread that runs through these stories of first-generation Americans: their journeys are aided by flawed, limited, transcendent love.

December 6, 2019