“That’s part of the homesickness and trying to recreate a home when I was so far away, living in Hong Kong for all those years.”
“A lot of the people featured in the book are an amalgamation or a collective and come from a historical fact of my life,” she said. While the novel isn’t autobiographical, the characters reflect people she knew growing up Angel-Ajani said they are all pieces of herself. “That declaration is a way she creates space in a lot of the same ways that especially first-generation immigrant kids have to make a claim of who they are even in the face of their parent’s positioning in the U.S.,” said Angel-Ajani. For Lara, rather than getting caught up on her mother’s attachment to the Soviet past, she’s working out who she is and who she will become. Her mother wishes she had a stronger relationship with Russian culture, and some neighbors in the Oasis Mobile Estates can’t fathom how she can have Black and Cuban heritage. Lara struggles against preconceived notions of who or how she should be. While her parents struggled to assimilate, Lara creates a uniquely American identity for herself, which creates some friction with her mother. “A Country You Can Leave” centers on a biracial teenage girl named Lara and her bartender mother, Yevgenia, a defector from the Soviet Union who raises her daughter without the child’s Afro-Cuban father. “These are landscapes and experiences that are disappearing and being radically altered by climate change and development, so there is something that we both gain and lose from that.” “There is a part of California, even for those of us in the last 15-20 years, that we don’t recognize anymore,” Angel-Ajani said.
If so, that income can be used to help qualify for the new mortgage.A Stanford University graduate with a doctorate in Anthropology and an MFA in creative writing, Angel-Ajani grew up in Riverside County in an unincorporated area near Perris, and the changes to the Inland Empire were on her mind as she wrote. Lenders want to make sure all income received can be properly sourced. What might not pass muster is an occasional deposit of income, even if from a verified, approved source. Part time income? Yes, if again there is a two-year history of receiving it and proper documentation provided. As well, the income must come from a verified source. This documentation typically comes in the form of the past two years of W2 forms, or in the case of someone that gets self-employment income, the last two years of personal and business tax returns may be asked for. Typically, income needs to be documented to have at least a two year track record. Mostly, yes, but there are some requirements to determine which income can qualify and which can not. After all, providing a paycheck stub and maybe tax returns is sufficient to document qualifying income, correct? It might seem a no-brainer to figure out how much income can be used for qualification purposes. Day to day expenses such as food, gas and utilities are typically not something that is chalked up as a debt used to help qualify. Borrowers can document overpayments or even paying off the entire balance completely, provide that information to the lender and the lender may be able to override what appears on the credit report. Even if the borrowers pay more than the minimum amount required, whatever is listed on the report will be the monthly payment used to determine affordability.
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