Manila Days
Formats
Paperback/English
USD 23.10
Description
Kerry Poethig didn’t ask to come, but her Presbyterian parents did—so she grew up in Manila: teeming, cheerful, and grimy, loving it with an alab ng puso, an impassioned heart. Manila Days is a hybrid memoir of a missionary child coming of age at the edge of American empire. The daughter of labor-focused “fraternal workers” with the United Church of Christ in the Philippines, Poethig weaves a Taglish narrative of family, faith, and politics from 1957 to 1972. Poetic, wounded, and often funny, sh
