Illustration for Cherry Bones Magazine issue 2, responding to excerpts from Chinese Espresso, a nonfiction book by anthropologist Grazia Ting Deng.

The bar, a coffee shop central to Italian culture, is a commercial and social space long seen as quintessentially Italian. Since the 2008 Great Recession, many have been managed by Chinese immigrant families. The illustration explores the café as a sensory site where migration, labor, cultural identity, and social life intersect.

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