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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.
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Concepcion, Albert Samaha
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- Released
- 2022
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- Title
- Concepcion
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Albert Samaha
- Publisher
- Center Point
- Released
- 2022
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 500
- ISBN13
- 9781638082057
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Historical Themes, True Stories, Biographies, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Asian Fiction
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
- Description
- 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.