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"...allows 25 immigrants to Maine to tell about their unique experiences moving to this state.... Not surprisingly, immigrants have made significant contributions to the state in the areas of medicine, engineering, academia, law, public school education, hotel management and social services.... How we arrived in this country varies from individual to individual. But, we are, nonetheless, bound to our future as a whole community.-- ""Maine Sunday Telegram"" ...Told in a series of 25 profiles, the book presents a diverse and enterprising mix of people who span five continents and countless walks of life. How these immigrants came here, what they left behind, and the lives they've built are the focus of this complex anthology...a provocative and unsettling book for the very reasons that immigration is such a difficult issue. Although the stories center on the experience of 25 individuals, they reflect, to some degree, on all of us...it strips the theoretical veil from the immigration debate and gives it two dozen human faces.-- ""Working Waterfront"" Certain to enrich a reader's interest in the greater world and all it has to offer.-- ""Capital Weekly"""

...Told in a series of 25 profiles, the book presents a diverse and enterprising mix of people who span five continents and countless walks of life. How these immigrants came here, what they left behind, and the lives they've built are the focus of this complex anthology...a provocative and unsettling book for the very reasons that immigration is such a difficult issue. Although the stories center on the experience of 25 individuals, they reflect, to some degree, on all of us...it strips the theoretical veil from the immigration debate and gives it two dozen human faces. Certain to enrich a reader's interest in the greater world and all it has to offer. ...allows 25 immigrants to Maine to tell about their unique experiences moving to this state.... Not surprisingly, immigrants have made significant contributions to the state in the areas of medicine, engineering, academia, law, public school education, hotel management and social services.... How we arrived in this country varies from individual to individual. But, we are, nonetheless, bound to our future as a whole community.

...allows 25 immigrants to Maine to tell about their unique experiences moving to this state.... Not surprisingly, immigrants have made significant contributions to the state in the areas of medicine, engineering, academia, law, public school education, hotel management and social services.... How we arrived in this country varies from individual to individual. But, we are, nonetheless, bound to our future as a whole community.

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Pat Nyhan is a former journalist with the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram and Maine Times who teaches English as a Second Language to immigrants. She has worked for Human Rights Watch on African issues, taught English in Afghanistan in the Peace Corps, and taught media studies at the University of Southern Maine. The author of Zigzag: A Working Woman's Life in Changing Times and Let the Good Times Roll! A Guide to Cajun & Zydeco Music, Pat has lived in Maine for almost thirty years. Photographer Jan Pieter van Voorst van Beest is a Dutch national who moved to Maine from the Netherlands in 1970. His work has been widely shown in solo, group, and juried exhibits in the U.S and Holland. He has published three books of photography: San Miguel de Allende, a photographic essay; Portland, Maine, in Black and White; and Flesh and Stone. He started in photography in the early 1970s after taking courses at the Portland School of Art, now the Maine College of Art. He also had a long career as a transportation and logistics executive. Reza Jalali is a writer, educator, and a Muslim Scholar, who has taught courses at the University of Southern Maine and Bangor Theological Seminary. Jalali's books include New Mainers ((c)2009, Tilbury), Moon Watchers ((c)2010, Tilbury), Homesick Mosque and Other Stories, and The Poets and the Assassin. His children's book, Moon Watchers, has received the Stepping Stone Multicultural Award. His five-act play, The Poets and the Assassin, which is about women in Iran and Islam, has been staged at Bates College, University of Southern Maine, Bowdoin College, University of New England, and the Space Gallery, among others. In May 2015, Jalali was featured in the National Public Radio's popular program, The Moth Radio.

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