CONTENTS Author’s Note Part I LANDINGS 1. Desire 2. Fire 3. The Fight 4. Truce 5. The Green Onion 6. Vows 7. The Gift 8. The Cake Boss 9. In Bloom 10. The Wedding 11. With Strangers 12. Shadow 13. In Bosnia Part II MY UTICA 14. The Strike Force 15. Graduation 16. Confessions of a Teacher 17. Ismar’s Dream 18. The Ban 19. The Drone 20. August 21. Coming Home 22. The New Apartment 23. Lofts 24. Mersiha Leaps 25. Bomb Threat 26. The Rutger Restaurant 27. Nineteen 28. Designing a House 29. The Crossing 30. Deployed 31. The Key 32. Who Will Help You? Part III NEW AMERICANS 33. They Don’t Talk About It 34. On the Brink 35. Solo 36. Ramadan, 2019 37. The Mayor’s Sweep 38. Sadia’s List 39. The Visit 40. Renovating 41. The Baby Shower 42. Their Generation 43. Six Months 44. His Text 45. On the Run 46. On Wings 47. The Opening 48. Karma EPILOGUE We Rallied About the Process Acknowledgments Notes Index