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Concepcion family Ex-church members Jehovah's Witnesses Biography Filipino Americans California San Francisco Biography Filipino Americans California San Francisco History 20th century Immigrants California San Francisco Biography Jehovahs Witnesses Missions China Mindanao Island (Philippines) Biography Mindanao Island (Philippines) Politics and government Samaha, Albert Family San Francisco (Calif.) BiographyScorah, Amber
Summary: A first book by the creator of the "Dear Amber" podcast describes her strict upbringing as a third-generation Jehovah's Witness and her efforts to find her true place in the world apart from the edicts of her family and faith. A third-generation Jehovah's Witness, Scorah had devoted her life to sounding God's warning of impending Armageddon. She took the message to China, where immersion in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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Summary: "A journalist's powerful and incisive account of the forces steering the fate of his sprawling Filipinx-American family reframes how we comprehend the immigrant experience. Nearing the age at which his mother had migrated to the U.S., part of the wave ofnon-Europeans who arrived after immigration quotas were relaxed in 1965, Albert Samaha began to question the ironclad belief in a better future...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2021