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A series · A miniature book
My family's personal experiences
Stories from the families behind Lahpet Voices, written to be read like a small book — one chapter at a time, built alongside the culture guides and interviews.
Memoir
Family
Diaspora
Why this series
A book we are writing together.
Culture is not a list of customs. It lives in families — in the meals an older sister organised at sixteen, in the names we use for the people we love, in the language parents keep teaching children in a new country.
This series holds our own family's memories alongside the interviews, recipes, and history guides. It is also a way of saying, to the migrant workers, students, and diaspora families on this site: you are not a separate story. You are the same story, told again and again.
Each chapter is written with care, reviewed by the people in it, and published only with their consent.
Chapter 01
The chapters
Contents
Chapter by chapter, this book grows. When a new chapter is published, it appears here.
Chapter 01
Chapter 02
Chapter 03
Published
1967: The year our world turned upside down
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Coming soon
To be written
Have a chapter of your own family's story to add? Get in touch.
Elsewhere in the archive
Read more
From interviews to culture guides — the rest of the Lahpet Voices library.