![]() ![]() They must learn to become a family, even as they learn a new country. Restarting her life in Galveston, Rosalie brings her reluctant husband and three young children with whom she has rarely lived. ![]() ![]() 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.Įxpertly combining the personal and panoramic, DeParle presents a family saga and a global phenomenon. With nearly 45 million immigrants in the United States, few issues are as polarizing. Migration is changing the world–reordering politics, economics, and cultures across the globe. 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. At the heart of the story is Tita’s daughter, Rosalie. In a monumental book 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. 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. ![]()
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