These eight brutally beautiful stories are struck full of fragmented dreams, highly developed thieves, misadventures, and displaced characters all heaving through a human struggle to anchor themselves in a new home or sometimes a new reality. This book came out of a struggle to orient myself in the America of 2017 to 2021 when attitudes towards immigrants suddenly shifted. The JAPA characters explored in this book are immigrants who have no plans to return to their home country---for voluntary reasons--- though they retain a strong connection to home. The world is encountering this kind of immigrant for the first time.