Mackenzie Polonyi

Raised in a household of paprika in New Jersey by her homesick maternal grandmother—a refugee of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising and ensuing refugee crisis—Polonyi necessarily explores prescribed responsibilities of diasporic only-daughterhood. While shepherding her beloved grandmother through hospice at home, Polonyi wanders into slippery and informative familial-folkloric reveriescapes, gathering cartographic knowledge from her grandmother's body, name, language, personal possessions, and...