Everything Still Strong Within Me
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2019-01-14
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Abstract
Everything Still Strong Within Me is an immigrant memoir about a Bulgarian atheist-turned-Pentecostal preacher, Lyubomir Bozmarov, who fled post-communist Bulgaria for Southern California, written from the perspective of his eldest daughter, Ellie. Despite the promise of a better life, her mother, Antoaneta, ends her life before age thirty, leaving her daughter to return to Bulgaria and find the missing pieces of their past.