{"product_id":"the-average-jose-ken-flynn-9781984379092","title":"The Average Jose: An Immigration Story: Student Edition","description":"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, Jos  Pires bid farewell to his wife of five days, leaving the island of S o 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, Jos  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, Jos  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 Jos  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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ken Flynn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1984379097\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781984379092\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/21\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.30d","brand":"Ken Flynn","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43940625318143,"sku":"9781984379092","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_969000cc-b36d-476f-a92f-5ee58345afbe.jpg?v=1681448263","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-average-jose-ken-flynn-9781984379092","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}