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Night Shift in Perfect English
Poetry
ISBN 978-1-957746-22-7
p.88
2024 Winner of the Two Languages Book Award, Mina Khan’s debut collection Night Shift in Perfect English is a tender, album-like retelling of the immigrant family post-American Dream. Drawing upon her Korean-Pakistani heritage, Khan discusses the NYC bodega in a gentrifying neighborhood, the aging body, and a rapidly deteriorating climate; Everyday violences-and the vivid joys that persevere.
















