Parenting with an Accent

How Immigrants Honor Their Heritage, Navigate Setbacks, and Chart New Paths for Their Children

De: Masha Rumer

Narrado por: Samara Naeymi

A blend of on-the-ground reporting and personal anecdotes that weaves a tapestry of the immigrant experience, multicultural parenting, and identity in the US

Through her own stories and interviews with other immigrant families, award-winning journalist Masha Rumer paints a realistic and compassionate picture of what it’s like for immigrant parents raising a child in America while honoring their cultural identities. Parenting with an Accent speaks to immigrant and non-immigrant audiences alike, incorporating a diverse collection of voices and experiences to provide an intimate look at the lives of many different immigrant families across the country.

With a compelling blend of empirical data, humor, and on-the-ground reportage, Rumer presents interviews with experts on various aspects of parenting as an immigrant, including the challenges of acculturation, bilingualism strategies, and childcare. She visits a children’s Amharic class at an Ethiopian church in New York, a California vegetable farm, a Persian immersion school, and more. Through these stories, she opens a window to a world of parenting unique to multicultural families. Immigrant listeners will appreciate Rumer’s gentle message about the kind of ethnic and cultural ambivalence that is born of having roots planted in many different soils, while in this book non-immigrants get a fly-on-the-wall view of the unique experiences of newcomers.

Deeply researched yet personal, Parenting with an Accent centers immigrants and their experiences in a new country—emphasizing how immigrants and their children remain an integral part of America’s story.

©2021 Masha Rumer (P)2021 Random House Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Rumer’s book weaves together dozens of parents’ stories, their successes and their failures [...] In Parenting with an Accent, she has created such a circle for all of us."—The Los Angeles Review of Books

"A refreshing addition to a crowded field, unique in its focuses and perspective: highlighting and amplifying the voices and stories of immigrant parents navigating life in the United States. The book is as much ethnographic study as it is an affirmative and therapeutic examination of identity, and what it means to pass that identity forward."—Lilith Magazine

"Rumer blends her own stories with interviews of other immigrant families, exploring various issues in an insightful and even humorous way."—Jaime Herndon, Book Riot

Amazing storytelling, backed by research and enlivened with humor

This book brought tears to my eyes as the author interwove her own story with those of the many people she interviewed for the book. Even if your household is monolingual you will learn a lot and expand your ideas of child rearing. Highly recommended!