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"A ruthlessly honest personal story and a devastating critique of
contemporary American culture." -- Seattle Times A "searingly
honest self-exploration"* of the experience and psyche of the Asian
American male, including Tizon's stunning final article, "My
Family's Slave" Shame, Alex Tizon tells us, is universal--his own
happened to be about race. To counteract the steady diet of
American television and movies that taught Tizon to be ashamed of
his face, his skin color, his height, he turned outward. ("I had to
educate myself on my own worth. It was a sloppy, piecemeal
education, but I had to do it because no one else was going to do
it for me.") Tizon illuminates his youthful search for Asian men
who had no place in his American history books or classrooms. And
he tracks what he experienced as seismic change: the rise of
powerful, dynamic Asian men like Yahoo! cofounder Jerry Yang, actor
Ken Watanabe, and NBA starter Jeremy Lin. Included in this new
edition of Big Little Man is Alex Tizon's "My Family's
Slave"--2017's best-read digital article. Published only weeks
after Tizon's death in 2017, it delivers a provocative, haunting,
and ultimately redemptive coda. * New York Times "Alex Tizon writes
with acumen and courage, and the result is a book at once
illuminating and, yes, liberating." -- Peter Ho Davies, author of
The Fortunes
"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.
“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.
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