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.