Hey, consider this listener as it's Ari Shapiro and we've got a weekend bonus episode

for you.

This comes from our colleagues at Rough Translation and PR's podcast that travels the world to

tell stories close to home.

And for this episode, producer Justinian talks with novelist R.O. Quann about what it feels

like to be an Asian American woman right now and what it means to care for the people

you love during this period of increased anti-Asian rhetoric and violence.

They spoke a week after the deadly shootings in Atlanta that killed eight people including

six Asian women.

Rough Translation host Gregory Warner takes it from here.

Dear Asian women living in America, until this week, though I'd often tried, I wasn't

able to bring myself to tell my parents to watch out for the upsurge in anti-Asian

attacks.

And part because I can't bear it that they move to this country mostly from my brothers

and my sake.

This is Rough Translation from NPR.

I'm Gregory Warner.

What you just heard was from an essay in Vanity Fair, read by the writer A.O. Quann, entitled

a letter to my fellow Asian women whose hearts are still breaking.

It's about the shooting in Atlanta last week where a 21-year-old white man killed eight

people, six of them women of Korean and Chinese descent.

And it's an essay that explains how that shooting compelled her to break a silence with

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