The silence in American public discourse about the reverse one-drop rule as it governed Mexican Americans is significant.

And the stately ships go on / To their haven under the hill;

“I was being paid in stock options, not salary increases, and my stock went through the floor,” she says.

He describes one variety of the stinking durian fruit as tasting like “undercooked peanut butter-mint omelets in body-odor sauce”; langsats are “tangy-sweet detonations of citric perfection”; biting into a monkey tamarind is “like eating cloud.”