Martyna Majok, Cost of Living: A Play [transcript below][Text ID: “Mostpeople assume my name&r

Martyna Majok, Cost of Living: A Play [transcript below][Text ID: “Mostpeople assume my name’s Jessica.It’s not. My mothercame to the country with no English, very little, and she’s in this hospital inNewark—it’s not there anymore this is clearly like a few years—and the nursehands me to my mom for the first time. She was here alone. No family. And thenurse asks my mom like, what’ll you call her? And my mom just looks at her. Shesaid that’s the moment it hit her, how alone she is. How little English. Howeverything now it’s hers. Her shoulders. And she thought the nurse said—When mymom was asked a question, she’d usually either just say yes or no or okay likejudgin on if it was a man or a woman she was answerin, or if they looked nice,I mean most times people just asked her like, do you want a bag or are you okayand so she says yes or no or I’m okay. And so my mom, when the nurse asked myname, she I think she meant to say yes but, in her, y’know, her accent… So myname’s Jess.Just Jess. They were nice enough to puttwo s’s.”] -- source link

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