Post-Volcanic Folk TalesRaised in a household of paprika in New Jersey by her homesick maternal grandmother a refugee of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising and ensuing refugee crisis Polonyi necessarily explores prescribed responsibilities of diasporic only daughterhood. While shepherding her beloved grandmother through hospice at home, Polonyi wanders into slippery and informative familial folkloric reveriescapes, gathering cartographic knowledge from her grandmother's body, name,