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Episode 15: Home Is a People, Not a Place
Perry Constantine has three immigrant stories layered into one: his Greek grandfather fled political violence in Istanbul to bring the family back to Chicago; his British father emigrated through Canada; and Perry himself left Chicago for Japan in 2008 through the JET Program, expecting to stay a year. Almost twenty years later, he's teaching at a university in Kagoshima, married to a Japanese woman, and raising two bilingual kids. In this conversation, Perry and Mary Lou talk about arriving in a town with no English-language information available online, the reverse culture shock of moving…
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