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Miniature American Flag

This is what Lalami is given at her citizenship ceremony in exchange for her alien registration card.

Fleas

Lalami does not tell anyone about this infestation in her apartment because she thinks it is equated with poverty.

Border Walls

Lalami describes these as "monuments of failure" (71).

Demographics Unit

Started in 2002, Lalami describes this division of the NYPD as existing for the sole purpose of spying on Muslims.

Pomona Fairplex

This is the place where Lalami's citizenship ceremony was held and also the place where Japanese Americans were held during World War II.

Catholicism

This is the religion Lalami's mother was made to follow after she was sent to an orphanage following her parent's deaths.

Islam

This is the religion Lalami was raised with and identifies with as an adult.

Lalami's Editor's Office

This is the place a famous columnist asked Lalami to sit on his...

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