After paying 5,000 usd of tuition for my younger sister, I came home and saw that my room had been cleared of all my things. My mother said, “Your role is finished, go find another place more suitable to live.” She put the glass into my hand and turned away. A few weeks later, my father calling me constantly… At first, I thought the worst part of that night was just losing my room. In our small rental house outside Seattle, Washington, that room was the only corner of America that ever really fe