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

Among the Washington Post’s 10 Ideal Books of the Year

‘A remarkable book…essential.’–The Boston World

‘A sweeping, deeply reported tale of worldwide migration…DeParle’s understanding of migration is refreshingly clear-eyed and nuanced.’–The New York Times

‘This is epic reporting, non-fiction on a whole other level…One of the better books on immigration written in a generation.’–Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted

The definitive chronicle of our modern of global migration, about A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century told through the multi-generational saga of a Filipino family, with a veteran NY Times reporter and two-time Pulitzer Award finalist.

When Jason DeParle moved in to the Manila slums with Tita Comodas and her family three decades ago, he by no means imagined his reporting on them would period three generations and become the defining chronicle of a new age–the age of global migration. Within a monumental reserve that gives brand-new meaning to ‘immersion journalism,’ DeParle paints a romantic portrait of the unforgettable family members as they endure years of sacrifice and separation, willing themselves out of shantytown poverty right into a brand-new global middle class. In the centre of the story is Tita’s girl, Rosalie. Beating the chances, she problems through nursing school and works her way across the Middle East until a Texas medical center fulfills her dreams with a job offer in the States.

Migration is changing the world–reordering politics, economics, and cultures throughout the world. With almost 45 million immigrants in america, few issues are as polarizing. If the politics of immigration is normally damaged, immigration itself–tens of thousands of people collected from every corner of the globe–remains an underappreciated American achievement. Expertly combining the personal and panoramic, DeParle presents a family group saga and a worldwide trend. Restarting her lifestyle in Galveston, Rosalie brings her hesitant spouse and three young children with whom she’s rarely lived. They need to learn to become a family, even while they learn a new country. Regular and extraordinary simultaneously, their journey is certainly a twenty-first-century traditional, rendered in gripping details.