Kion You Kion You lives in Pennsylvania, where he works at a residential school for students with developmental disabilities. His writing has been published or is forthcoming in The Iowa Review, The Missouri Review, the Santa Monica Review, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He holds degrees from Brown University and the Michener Center. He is currently at work on a novel.

My Graduation

Kion You

At the airport, I hustled out of my Subaru and waved down my family. They looked awful, but who doesn’t at Arrivals.  “Why is it so hot?” my mother asked.  “Austin, Texas,” my dad said, switching from Korean to English. “Great!” My mother handed me her suitcase and scrutinized the FREE PALESTINE sticker on the car’s bumper. My friend Joana had put it on — she sold me the car...