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Manila Days

Manila Days

Poethig, Kathryn

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Biographies GeneralGeneral ChristianitySoutheast Asian History

Publisher Price: $23.00

ISBN13: 9798385273782
Publisher: Resource Publications (CA)
Published: Aug 31 2026
Pages: 222
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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, 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. As 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.

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