How to Have an American Baby is a kaleidoscopic voyage into the shadow economy that caters to Chinese tourists who travel to the US to give birth in order to obtain citizenship for their babies. Told through a series of intimately observed vignettes, the story of a hidden global economy emerges–depicting the fortunes and tragedies that befall the ordinary people caught in its web.
Aspiring social worker faces the uncertainty of life as a blind, undocumented immigrant.
At MIT, an alum follows four African students striving to become change agents for home.
In this reflection on aging and transformation, a woman with dementia reinvents herself.
