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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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The Average Jose: An Immigration Story: Student Edition

The Average Jose: An Immigration Story: Student Edition

Flynn, Ken
Clark, John
Flynn, Ken

Paperback

Young Adult Graphic Novels

ISBN10: 1984379097
ISBN13: 9781984379092
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jul 21 2017
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.30 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
The Student Edition of the touching graphic novel about a man and what he gives up for his family includes worksheets and activities perfect for a classroom setting.Canada is a nation built by immigrants, and this is the story of one such man. In the 1950s, José Pires bid farewell to his wife of five days, leaving the island of São Miguel in the Azores and coming to Canada in hopes of building a life for his future family.Working across Canada on the Canadian Pacific Railway and Canadian National Railway, José embodied an ideal that is hard to find in today's generation: the idea that your life should not be measured by what you achieve for yourself, but by what you leave to others. An honest, loyal man, José waited eighteen months to see his wife again - Maria, the love of his life, mother of his eventual children, and the woman he would, years later, tend to in chronic care.Intelligent and compelling, The Average José deftly counterbalances Portuguese themes of saudade (a simultaneous sense of love and loss) and obrigado (thankfulness). It moves effortlessly between the sometimes dreamlike cultural landscape of the Azores in the forties and fifties and the realities of the Canadian immigrant experience.

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