The definitive chronicle of our new age of global migration, told through the multi-generational saga of a Filipino family, by a veteranNew York Timesreporter and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist.When Jason DeParle moved in with Tita Comodas in the Manila slums thirty years ago, he didn't expect to make a lifelong friend. Nor did he expect to spend decades reporting on her family—husband, children, and siblings—as they came to embody the stunning rise of global migration. InA Good Provider Is One Who Leaves, DeParle paints an intimate portrait of an unforgettable family across three generations, as migration reorders economics, politics, and culture across the world. At the heart of the story is Rosalie, Tita's middle child, who escapes poverty by becoming a nurse, and lands jobs in Jeddah, Abu Dhabi and, finally, Texas—joining the record forty-four million immigrants in the United States.Migration touches every aspect of global...