Albert Samaha, CONCEPCION: An Immigrant Family's Fortunes
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
"To me, this book, in a lot of ways, the core intellectual arc of the book is this journey of me figuring out what it means to be American." Zibby is joined by investigative journalist and editor at BuzzFeed News Albert Samaha to talk about his new memoir, Concepcion, which is a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Albert and Zibby talk about the ways in which the shape of the narrative changed over the five years it took to write it, which moments in recent history have had the greatest effect on Albert's family, and how he determined which memories made it into the book.
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| 0:36.9 | Hi. |
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| 0:41.0 | Albert Samaha is the author of Concepcion, an immigrant family's fortunes. Albert is an |
| 0:46.9 | investigative journalist and inequality editor at BuzzFeed News, a Whiting Foundation creative nonfiction |
| 0:52.6 | grant recipient. He is also the author of Never |
| 0:55.0 | Rann, Never Will, Boyhood and Football in a Changing American Inner City, which was a finalist |
| 1:00.2 | for the 2019 Penn ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing. He lives in Brooklyn. |
| 1:05.7 | Welcome, Albert. Thank you so much for coming on. Moms. Don't have time to read books to |
| 1:09.4 | discuss conception and immigrant family's fortunes. Yeah, thanks for coming on, Moms Don't have time to read books to discuss conception and |
| 1:11.2 | immigrant family's fortunes. Yeah, thanks for having me. It's pleasure to be here. |
| 1:15.8 | I have to say, I learned so much about, you have so much history in here, so much, not just about |
| 1:23.3 | your culture's immigration, but really America itself and how, you know, this, how our country |
| 1:29.6 | sort of has come to be. And I love how you framed the whole thing up until like the American flag |
| 1:36.4 | outside your home, you know, perhaps being stolen, but really it wasn't stolen. And like the whole |
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