But the low-wage industries she's confronting are employing workers at a far greater scale than she can educate on an individual basis.
The action alternates between two time periods and two couples: Gerard, a self-proclaimed "Taig with attitude" working for the Northern Ireland Tourist Board, arrives in contemporary Montserrat and romances sweet Clarissa who, conveniently, is a schoolteacher, so that she can educate Gerard and the audience about the history of her native land.
"The time that North Korea policy has worked in the U.S. government is when there's one person who knows something who has access to senior officials, and he or she can educate them," Wit, a senior fellow at the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins SAIS, said.
In lieu of government guidance — aside from cautioning people on the addictive properties — Chaffee said she does the best she can to educate her patients, explaining to them that daily marijuana use at that age isn't without consequences.
We can educate, we can inform, and we can make the decision-making process easier.
Throughout the novel Ms. García cuts back and forth between Chen Pan's story and the stories of his granddaughter Chen Fang, who is brought up as a boy in China so she can be educated; and his great-grandson Domingo Chen, who moves to America after the revolution in Cuba.
Employment can educate, employment can save and invest and employment can build homes.
"When I grow up I would like to be a teacher so that I can educate others," she says.
"We can either educate or electrocute.
