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Invisible people : stories of lives at the margins / Alex Tizon ; edited and with an introduction by Sam Howe Verhovek ; foreword by Jose Antonio Vargas.

by Tizon, Alex.

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Temple University Press, 2020.

070.4493055 T625i

Marginality, Social -- United States.

Immigrants -- United States.

9781439918302 (hc.)

Alternate title:

Stories of lives at the margins

xix, 236 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

"Every human being has an epic story, according to the late Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Alex Tizon, who spent his career telling 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 the Atlantic magazine cover story about the woman who raised him and his siblings under conditions that amounted to indentured servitude, “My Family’s Slave.” Mining his Filipino American background, Tizon tells the tales of immigrants from Cambodia and Laos. He offers 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—brim with enlightening details about people who existed outside the mainstream’s field of vision. Introducing 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 not only the beauty and brilliance of Tizon’s writing but also the respect he shows his subjects. Invisible People is a loving tribute to a journalist whose search for his own identity prompted him to chronicle the lives of others."--From the publisher.

Verhovek, Sam Howe.

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