Melody S. Gee

Melody S. Gee is the author of The Convert’s Heart is Good to Eat, The Dead in Daylight, and Each Crumbling House. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with her husband and daughters.

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What Belongs to the Living

Sindya Bhanoo’s short stories ask us to make space for and share our lives with sorrow, regret, and reconciliation.

By Melody S. Gee

March 8, 2022

Fiction

Article

Fractured Remembrance

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

By Melody S. Gee

September 22, 2021

Nonfiction

Immigration

Article

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

Article

Two Adoptions

“While nothing can alter or supersede my first adoption, I believe my second adoption might resurrect some of the first one’s losses.”

April 1, 2021

Article

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

Article

Language & Conversion

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

February 14, 2020

Must Reads

Politics

Child Labor Isn’t in the Past

We can’t afford to play dumb as labor protections fail and disappear. Treating children like cheap labor costs too much.

By Mollie Wilson O’Reilly

August 6, 2023

Religion

Opus Dei’s Ordinary Secularity

In a new history of Opus Dei, two senior members celebrate the group’s embrace of ordinary life.

By Daniele Palmer

August 4, 2023

Culture

Barbie the Existentialist

Stereotypical Barbie is everything, which is another way of saying that she is nothing.

By Santiago Ramos

August 25, 2023

Books

Is Ethics Like Math?

A new biography of philosopher Derek Parfit explains the eccentric philosopher's quest to find a legitimate secular moral theory.

By Frank B. Farrell

August 17, 2023

Collections

Pope Francis at Ten Years

A wide-ranging collection of Commonweal’s coverage of the remarkable pontificate of Pope Francis.

By The Editors

March 12, 2023