{"product_id":"b0hhgfpsqv","title":"Manila Days: Growing Up in the Postcolony","description":"\u003cp\u003eKerry 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eManila 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePoetic, wounded, and often funny, she recounts a childhood shaped by longing and improvisation--where Jesus whispers, If it's not magic, don't believe, and tree spirits, dreams, and Scripture coexist. Drawing on fragments from a family Decade Box, she reconstructs a world where identity is performed and belonging is never secure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs anti-imperialist tensions rise, the question of we becomes urgent: allies, enemies, or both?  Manila Days  traces the limits of solidarity and the cost of innocence, asking what it means to speak we ethically within the unequal realities of a postcolonial world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":67934644109348,"sku":"YSL33494","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0805\/2614\/7620\/files\/71ZQaCJ6bcL._SY1500.jpg?v=1793249077","url":"https:\/\/booktavero.com\/products\/b0hhgfpsqv","provider":"BookTavero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}