An elegant and smart novel by the author of "Dogeaters" which captures the pain of leaving one country behind and the struggle to adapt to a new one, "The Gangster of Love" tells the story of the Rivera family from the Philippines, who have come to the United States to make a new life.
The story of two Filipino brothers adrift in contemporary California. The older brother, Tomas, fashions himself into a Mexican gangster and breeds attack dogs. The narrator is younger brother Gabe, who tries to avoid the tar pit of Tomas's waywardness, yet moves ever closer to embracing it.
This collection of sixteen short stories brings the work of a distinguished Filipino writer to the attention of an American audience. Born in the Phillipines, Mr. Santos first came to the United States in 1941. Since then, he has lived intermittently in each country, writing in English about his experiences and those of his countrymen.
Based on in-depth interviews with more than 100 Filipinos in San Diego, California, this text investigates how Filipino women and men are transformed through the experience of migration, and how they in turn remake the social world around them.
From one of our most charismatic poets, a personal song to America. This pulsating collection picks up the beat and imagery of Patrick Rosal's thrilling debut, "Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive," Here, though, the poet's electric narratives and portraits extend beyond the working class streets of urban New Jersey. Modeling poems on the kundiman, ...
Filipino Americans are now the second largest group of Asian Americans as well as the second largest immigrant group in the United States. As reflected in this collection, their lives represent the diversity of the immigrant experience and their narratives are a way to understand ethnic identity and Filipino American history. Men and women, old ...
In a semi-autobiographical, funny, heartbreaking, first-person narrative, a fresh new voice tells of 14-year-old Vicenza, recently arrived in San Francisco from the Philippines, in a touching story about a young girl who despairs of ever fitting in. Young Adult.
Containing over 100 traditional and modern adaptations of Filipino recipes, this cookbook is perfect for Americans with little to no experience with Filipino cuisine, and for Filipino-Americans interested in learning new adaptations of traditional dishes. A comprehensive guide, "The Filipino-American Kitchen" includes a brief culinary history of ...
Home to 33,000 Filipino American residents, Daly City, California, located just outside of San Francisco, has been dubbed 'the Pinoy Capital of the United States.' In this fascinating ethnographic study of the lives of Daly City residents, Benito Vergara shows how Daly City has become a magnet for the growing Filipino American community. Vergara ...
Poetry and short stories from the author of "Dogeaters" and "Gangster Choir". As in her other works, Hagedorn here explores the confusions and perceptions that affect Asian immigrants in the United States.
Rocky Rivera plays in a rock band with her boyfriend, Elvis Chang. Her story spans generations and cultures, and includes such characters as her traditional mother, Milagros, her bedeviled brother, Voltaire, her eccentric uncle Marlon, and her best friend, the enigmatic Keiko.
Cora loves being in the kitchen, but she always gets stuck doing the kid jobs like licking the spoon. One day, however, when her older sisters and brother head out, Cora finally gets the chance to be Mama's assistant chef. And of all the delicious Filipino dishes that dance through Cora's head, she and Mama decide to make pancit, her favorite ...
Can a fish talk? Can it jump and play and run -- especially run -- just like a small boy? When Lakas and his dad go shopping, they meet a very special fish that can do all these things and more! But this fish won't stay put in its fish tank. Once it leaps out, a cast of unusual Manilatown characters chases it down Kearny Street and all the way to ...
In One Tribe, the dealth of Isabel Manalo's unborn child stirs widespread speculation in her small Midwestern suburb. Fed up with the noise of tsismosas (gossips), she moves to Virginia Beach to teach myth and history to Filipino-American youth, and walks into a chaotic world of drive-by shootings, beauty pageants and community politicking. At ...
This collection touches on memory, love, the sorrow of loss, and childhood joy-all viewed through the prism of a unique Asian culture that is the product of American and Spanish colonization. The anthology reflects the myriad changes faced by Filipinas in the twenty-first century, their songs of survival, and the bridging of cultures. It gives ...
In Names above Houses, Oliver de la Paz uses both prose and verse poems to create the magical realm of Fidelito Recto - a boy who wants to fly - and his family of Filipino immigrants. Fidelito's mother, Maria Elena, tries to keep her son grounded while struggling with her own moorings. Meanwhile, Domingo, Fidelito's fisherman father, is always at ...
Willie is tired of hearing about his father's childhood in the Philippines and wishes his dad would just concentrate on life in the United States. When a school assignment on saving money requires Willie to bring a bank into school, he is embarrassed by the Philippine coconut-shell piggy bank his father gives him for the project. To make matters ...
Silme and Gene were only twenty-nine at the time they were murdered in 1981. They had spent ten years reforming cannery workplaces, where bosses and mob-related union foremen were resistant to change. Both college educated activists, they angered many inside and outside the Filipino community because of their forceful, open fight for union reform ...
A young Filipino Mormon boy living on the Hawaiian island of Lanai tries to further his relationship with a Japanese girl but he first must overcome the prejudice of her father.
A debut novel of politics, history, and identity, written by a Filipina expatriate now living in New York. It describes the efforts of Viola, an upper-class Filipina, to learn the circumstances of her birth. The daughter of a well-to-do publisher and confidante of Ferdinand Marcos, Viola is distraught when her father leaves the family to live with ...
In 1997, when the New York Times described Filipino American serial killer Andrew Cunanan as appearing "to be everywhere and nowhere," Allan Punzalan Isaac recognized confusion about the Filipino presence in the United States, symptomatic of American imperialism's invisibility to itself. In American Tropics, Isaac explores American fantasies about ...
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