
Sarwar relates her story from being a foreign student in the US until the time of her birthing a child to a Chicano father. She realizes that in the US, she was viewed differently from the way she saw herself wherein her dark skin is connected to a class and color struggle that was foreign to her. She recounts that her transition in this country from being a "foreign student" to "undocumented alien" to "resident alien" to "naturalized citizen" over a twenty-five year period, in an anti-immigration period stamped by Reagan and Bush--and filled with invasions and war-has been a long and slow learning experience.