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Invisible people : stories of lives at the margins / Alex Tizon ; edited by Sam Howe Verhovek ; foreword by Jose Antonio Vargas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tizon, Alex, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Immigrants.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xix, 236 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; Rome ; Tokyo : Temple University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "Somewhere in the tangle of the subject's burden and the subject's desire is your story." -Alex Tizon  Every human being has an epic story. The late Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Alex Tizon told the epic stories of marginalized people-from lonely immigrants struggling to forge a new American identity to a high school custodian who penned a New Yorker short story. Edited by Tizon's friend and former colleague Sam Howe Verhovek, Invisible People collects the best of Tizon's rich, empathetic accounts-including "My Family's Slave, " the Atlantic magazine cover story about the woman who raised him and his siblings under conditions that amounted to indentured servitude. Mining his Filipino American background, Tizon tells the stories of immigrants from Cambodia and Laos. He gives a fascinating account of the Beltway sniper and insightful profiles of Surfers for Jesus and a man who tracks UFOs. His articles-many originally published in the Seattle Times and the Los Angeles Times- are brimming with enlightening details about people who existed outside the mainstream's field of vision.  In their introductions to Tizon's pieces, New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet, Atlantic  magazine editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg, Pulitzer Prize winners Kim Murphy and Jacqui Banaszynski, and others salute Tizon's respect for his subjects and the beauty and brilliance of his writing. Invisible People is a loving tribute to a journalist whose search for his own identity prompted him to chronicle the lives of others.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781439918326
- 1439918325
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