A Beginner’s Guide to America By: Roya Hakakian [Audiobook]

Author: Roya Hakakian
Narrated by: Roya Hakakian

A stirring, witty, and poignant glimpse into the bewildering American immigrant experience from someone who has lived it. Also, a mirror held up to America.

Into the maelstrom of unprecedented contemporary debates about immigrants in the United States, this perfectly timed audiobook gives us a portrait of what the new immigrant experience in America is really like. Written as a “guide” for the newly arrived and providing “practical information and advice”, Roya Hakakian, an immigrant herself, reveals what those who settle here love about the country, what they miss about their homes, the cruelty of some Americans, and the unceasing generosity of others. She captures the texture of life in a new place in all its complexity, laying bare both its beauty and its darkness as she discusses race, sex, love, death, consumerism, and what it is like to be from a country that is in America’s crosshairs. Her tenderly perceptive and surprisingly humorous account invites us to see ourselves as we appear to others, making it possible for us to rediscover our many American gifts through the perspective of the outsider. In shattering myths and embracing painful contradictions that are unique to this place, A Beginner’s Guide to America is Hakakian’s candid love letter to America.

General Information
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Title:   A Beginner's Guide to America
Subtitle:   For the Immigrant and the Curious
Author:   Roya Hakakian
Narrator:   Roya Hakakian
Audiobook Copyright:   2021
Publisher:   Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Duration:   7 hrs 47 mins
ISBN:   9780593291979
Subjects:   Sociology, Nonfiction, Humor (Nonfiction)
File Information
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Media Format:   MP3
Total Files:   7
Total Size:   213 MB
Bitrate:   64 kbps
Sample Rate:   44.1 kHz
Channels:   Stereo
Book Description
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A stirring, witty, and poignant glimpse into the bewildering American
immigrant experience from someone who has lived it. Also, a mirror
held up to America.
Into the maelstrom of unprecedented contemporary debates about
immigrants in the United States, this perfectly timed book gives us a
portrait of what the new immigrant experience in America is really
like. Written as a "guide" for the newly arrived, and providing
"practical information and advice," Roya Hakakian, an immigrant
herself, reveals what those who settle here love about the country,
what they miss about their homes, the cruelty of some Americans, and
the unceasing generosity of others. She captures the texture of life
in a new place in all its complexity, laying bare both its beauty and
its darkness as she discusses race, sex, love, death, consumerism, and
what it is like to be from a country that is in America's crosshairs.
Her tenderly perceptive and surprisingly humorous account invites us
to see ourselves as we appear to others, making it possible for us to
rediscover our many American gifts through the perspective of the
outsider. In shattering myths and embracing painful contradictions
that are unique to this place, A Beginner's Guide to America is
Hakakian's candid love letter to America.

224K	A Beginner's Guide to America - 001 - A Beginner's Guide to America For the Immigrant and the Curious.mp3
204K	A Beginner's Guide to America - 002 - Dedication.mp3
684K	A Beginner's Guide to America - 003 - Epigraph.mp3
2.3M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 004 - Prologue.mp3
1.6M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 005 - Part I Chapter One Upon Arrival in America the Beautiful.mp3
3.3M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 006 - First Inspections.mp3
3.1M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 007 - Stepping onto the American Street.mp3
2.9M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 008 - The Road to Your Destination.mp3
892K	A Beginner's Guide to America - 009 - An Exhausted Finale.mp3
1.4M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 010 - Chapter Two Genesis Redux.mp3
5.1M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 011 - Your First Unplanned Encounter.mp3
2.2M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 012 - A Mosey in the New Neighborhood.mp3
1.6M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 013 - Welcome to the Free World's Wide Web.mp3
3.7M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 014 - Grocery Shopping 2.0.mp3
2.9M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 015 - The ABCs of American Peculiarities.mp3
3.4M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 016 - The Immigrant's TV Guide.mp3
2.4M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 017 - Chapter Three On Resume Writing, ESL School, and Other Post-Arrival Drudgeries.mp3
6.9M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 018 - Your Life on a Page.mp3
1.4M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 019 - Back to School Again.mp3
1.8M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 020 - Your American Baptism.mp3
4.7M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 021 - Two Ways to Conjugate.mp3
2.4M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 022 - You, Second Edition.mp3
2.1M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 023 - Chapter Four On Public Transportation, Getting Lost, and Other Post-Arrival Tribulations.mp3
5.8M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 024 - First Transportation Woes.mp3
6.8M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 025 - Arrival A Tragedy in Five Acts.mp3
5.0M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 026 - Viva la Life! Down with Death!.mp3
5.5M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 027 - Of Heaven and Hell in the American Park.mp3
1.8M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 028 - Part II Chapter Five Welcome to Selfistan.mp3
3.7M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 029 - The Birds, the Fish, the Trees, and the Founding Fathers.mp3
3.1M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 030 - The American A Tribe of One.mp3
3.0M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 031 - Where 'I' Is King.mp3
2.3M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 032 - The Exception of the American Farewell.mp3
5.4M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 033 - Now Is the American Future.mp3
5.6M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 034 - The Vices and the Virtues of an American Lover.mp3
6.3M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 035 - Love's New Language.mp3
2.8M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 036 - Your First Romance A Few Warnings.mp3
716K	A Beginner's Guide to America - 037 - Chapter Six The Diaspora Can't Live with Them, Can't Live without Them.mp3
4.4M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 038 - The Abridged Catalogue of Belonging.mp3
15M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 039 - The Good in Diaspora.mp3
3.3M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 040 - To Be or Not to Be In the Ethnic Enclave.mp3
4.8M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 041 - The Bad in Diaspora.mp3
6.0M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 042 - The Immigrant's Affliction.mp3
2.3M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 043 - The Ugly in Diaspora.mp3
1.8M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 044 - The End of Cake.mp3
9.4M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 045 - And Yet, It Can Be Worse.mp3
2.0M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 046 - Chapter Seven The Loveable, the Inexplicable, and the Infuriating about America.mp3
5.2M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 047 - A Strange Brand of Generous.mp3
6.2M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 048 - On Squirrels and Americans.mp3
2.5M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 049 - The Thanks You Owe.mp3
3.0M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 050 - What Not to Learn from Americans.mp3
11M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 051 - The Undoing of America.mp3
2.9M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 052 - E as in Emigre, as in Excellence.mp3
3.0M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 053 - Chapter Eight On Refusing to Move to the Back of the American Bus.mp3
3.1M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 054 - Anti-immigrant Vitriol as the Other Apple Pie.mp3
3.5M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 055 - All Men Are Created Equal except Some Men.mp3
3.4M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 056 - Give Me Your Poor vs. Your Fat Cats.mp3
3.2M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 057 - America's Dark Future.mp3
2.8M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 058 - The Most Reliable Gods.mp3
3.1M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 059 - The Nine Circles of the Vetting Process.mp3
2.0M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 060 - Your Story, Your Prayer.mp3
4.5M	A Beginner's Guide to America - 061 - A Covenant in Red, White, and Blue.mp3
436K	A Beginner's Guide to America - 062 - Credits.mp3
104K	A Beginner's Guide to America.jpg
4.0K	A Beginner's Guide to America.nfo
220M	total