The poems, personal and visual narratives in this edited book, Critical Storytelling: Multilingual Immigrants in the United States, are symbolic of the resilient, transformative experiences lived by multilingual immigrants in the United States.

Foreword  Gloria Park Preface List of Figures Notes on Contributors PART 1: POETRY 1 Immigrant Background Students’ Names and Identities in U.S. Schools: Voices from the Underground  Lydiah Kananu Kiramba 2 This Is Our Summons Now  R. Joseph Rodríguez 3 Gringo or Rican or Just Me  Gabriel Teodoro Acevedo Velázquez 4 Spaces in Between  Sharada Krishnamurthy 5 “¡Vamos Mijo, I Know You Can Do This!”  Manuel De Jesús Gómez Portillo 6 El Sacrificio de una Madre: A Mother’s Sacrifice  Ana Bautista 7 Domestic Tongues  Mauricio Patrón Rivera 8 Mariposa: A Two-Part Poem  Zurisaray Espinosa 9 Beloved  Jamie Harris PART 2: Personal Narratives 10 Subtle Bangla Traits  Ben Haseen 11 You Had Better Turn off the Fan: Communicative Competence in Practice  Jiyoon Lee 12 Como una Leona: Shielding My Son from Discrimination at School  Aracelis Nieves 13 Every Word Is True: An Autoethnography to Unravel My Story  Babak Khoshnevisan 14 Quê Hương  Ethan Tính Trịnh 15 I Lost My Language But Your Child Doesn’t Have To  May F. Chung 16 Pagbabalik: Does It Even Matter?  Sandy Tadeo 17 My Life’s Metamorphosis: Becoming Bilingual  Luis Javier Pentón Herrera 18 Giving back When Most in Need  Geovanny Vicente Romero 19 Journeying through Transnational Spaces: A Reflexive Account of Praxis and Identity Construction  Rajwan Alshareefy and Cristina Sánchez-Martín 20 Story Weaving: Tejidos de Conocimientos Que Nos Conectan al Territorio  Judith Landeros 21 Entre la Tierra y los Sueños  Pablo Montes 22 The Power of Digital Storytelling for English Language Education: A Reflective Essay  Polina Vinogradova 23 Lost and Found: A Story of Reclaiming Identities  Bashar Al Hariri and Fatmeh Alalawneh 24 The Weight of a Name: My Names and Stories across Lands and Time  Tairan Qiu