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Concepcion: An Immigrant Family's Fortunes
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Finalist:National Book Critics Circle Award -Autobiography (2021)
Nearing the age at which his mother had migrated to the U.S., part of the wave of non-Europeans who arrived after immigration quotas were relaxed in 1965, Albert Samaha began to question the ironclad belief in a better future that had inspired his mother's family to uproot themselves from their birthplace. As she, her brother Spanky -- a rising pop star back in Manila, now working as a luggage handler at the San Francisco airport -- and others of their generation struggled with setbacks amid mounting instability that seemed to keep prosperity ever out of reach, he wondered whether their decision to abandon a middle-class existence in the Philippines had been worth the cost.
Book Details
- Publisher: Center Point
- Publish Date: Feb 1st, 2022
- Pages: 576
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.70in - 1.10in - 1.55lb
- EAN: 9781638082057
- Categories: • Memoirs