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    A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century
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    A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century
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    A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century

    Written by Jason DeParle

    Narrated by Fred Sanders

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    About this audiobook

    The definitive chronicle of our new age of global migration, told through the multi-generational saga of a Filipino family, by a veteran New York Times reporter and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist.

    When Jason DeParle moved into the Manila slums with Tita Comodas and her family three decades ago, he never imagined his reporting on them would span three generations and turn into the defining chronicle of a new age — the age of global migration. In a monumental audiobook that gives new meaning to "immersion journalism", DeParle paints an intimate portrait of an unforgettable family as they endure years of sacrifice and separation, willing themselves out of shantytown poverty into a new global middle class. At the heart of the story is Tita's daughter, Rosalie. Beating the odds, she struggles through nursing school and works her way across the Middle East until a Texas hospital fulfills her dreams with a job offer in the States.

    Migration is changing the world — reordering politics, economics, and cultures across the globe. With nearly 45 million immigrants in the United States, few issues are as polarizing. But if the politics of immigration is broken, immigration itself — tens of millions of people gathered from every corner of the globe — remains an underappreciated American success. Expertly combining the personal and panoramic, DeParle presents a family saga and a global phenomenon. Restarting her life in Galveston, Rosalie brings her reluctant husband and three young children with whom she has rarely lived. They must learn to become a family, even as they learn a new country. Ordinary and extraordinary at once, their journey is a 21st-century classic, rendered in gripping detail.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateAug 20, 2019
    ISBN9781984889669
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    A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century
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    Jason DeParle

    Jason DeParle, a reporter for The New York Times, has also written for The New Republic, the Washington Monthly, and The New Orleans Times-Picayune. A former Henry Luce Scholar, DeParle was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 and 1998 for his reporting on the welfare system.

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