Concepcion By Albert Samaha
- Narrated by: Albert Samaha
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 10-12-21
Concepcion AudioBook Summary
“Absolutely extraordinary…. A landmark in the contemporary literature of the diaspora.” (Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror)
“If Concepcion were only about Samaha’s mother, it would already be wholly worthwhile. But she was one of eight children in the Concepcion family, whose ancestry Samaha traces in this…powerful book.” (The New York Times)
A journalist’s powerful and incisive account of the forces steering the fate of his sprawling Filipino American family reframes how we comprehend the immigrant experience
Nearing the age at which his mother had migrated to the US, 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 her 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 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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