One of The Washington Post’s 10 Best Books of the Year

‘A remarkable reserve…indispensable.’–The Boston Globe

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

‘This is epic reporting, nonfiction 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 Supplier Is PERSON WHO Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Hundred years told through the multi-generational saga of a Filipino family, by a veteran NY Times reporter and two-time Pulitzer Reward finalist.

When Jason DeParle moved in to the Manila slums with Tita Comodas and her family members three decades back, he never imagined his reporting on them would span three generations and turn into the defining chronicle of a fresh age–the age of global migration. In a monumental reserve that gives new meaning to ‘immersion journalism,’ DeParle paints a romantic portrait of the unforgettable family members as they endure many years of sacrifice and separation, prepared themselves out of shantytown poverty right into a fresh global middle class. In the centre of the story is Tita’s daughter, Rosalie. Beating the chances, she problems through nursing college and functions her way across the Middle East until a Tx hospital fulfills her dreams with employment offer in the us.

Migration is normally changing the world–reordering politics, economics, and cultures throughout the world. With nearly 45 million immigrants in america, few issues are as polarizing. But if the politics of immigration is damaged, immigration itself–tens of millions of people collected from every corner from the globe–remains an underappreciated American success. Expertly combining the non-public and panoramic, DeParle presents a family saga and a global sensation. Restarting her life in Galveston, Rosalie brings her reluctant husband and three young children with whom she has rarely lived. They need to learn to become a family, even while they learn a fresh country. Ordinary and extraordinary at once, their journey is usually a twenty-first-century classic, rendered in gripping fine detail.