Writing Identities, Erasing Borders: The Night Diary, Front Desk, and Our Shared Story of Migration

Writing Identities, Erasing Borders:The Night Diary, Front Desk, and Our Shared Story of Migration Paige Gray (bio) Hiranandani, Veera. The Night Diary. Kokila, 2018. 272 pp. $12.79 hc. ISBN 9780735228511. Yang, Kelly. Front Desk. Levine, 2018. 304 pp. $11.39 hc. ISBN 9781338157796. In the August 2019 issue of National Geographic, writer Mohsin Hamid reminds us of our united state of transience, underscoring that a defining part of the human condition is to be in motion, to be a migrant: "To be human is to migrate forward through time, the seconds like islands, where we arrive, castaways, and from which we are swept off by the tide, arriving again and again, in a new instant, on a new island, one we…