From FromMonica Youn Where are you from . . . ? Nowhere are you from from? Its a question every Asian American gets asked as part of an incessant chorus saying youll never belong here, youre a perpetual foreigner, youll always be seen as an alien, an object, or a threat. Monica Youns From From brilliantly evokes the conflicted consciousness of deracination. If you have no core of authenticity, no experience of your so called homeland, how do you piece together