Invisible People
Stories of Lives at the Margins
Alex Tizon, Sam Howe Verhovek
- English
- PDF
- Disponible sur iOS et Android
Invisible People
Stories of Lives at the Margins
Alex Tizon, Sam Howe Verhovek
Ă propos de ce livre
"Somewhere in the tangle of the subject's burden and the subject's desire is your story." âAlex Tizon
Every human being has an epic story. The late Pulitzer Prizeâwinning writer Alex Tizon told the epic stories of marginalized peopleâfrom 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 accountsâincluding "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 articlesâmany originally published in the Seattle Times and the Los Angeles Timesâ 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.