Gina Apostol's debut novel, available for the first time in the US, tells of a young woman caught between a lifelong desire to escape into books and a real-world revolution. It is the mid-eighties, two decades into the kleptocratic, brutal rule of…
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Filipino American History Month: Fiction
A varied selection of classic and recent fiction by Filipino and Filipino American authors, in celebration of Filipino American History Month
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- A sight-impaired, avid reader traces his Manila childhood and revolutionary activities at the side of Filipino nationalist Jose Rizal against a backdrop of Spanish colonial-era violence.
- While on a road trip in Duterte’s Philippines, two women, a Filipino translator and an American filmmaker, both collaborate and clash in the writing of a film script about a massacre during the Philippine-American war.
- A Filipino woman living in New York City recounts her youthful indiscretions as a university student in Manila whose boyfriend turned her into a communist rebel and the fatal act she committed that haunts her to this day.
- Bobby Vincente is sensitive, faithful, and determined not to be defined or limited by anyone other than himself. This struggle takes him to the boxing ring, where his physicality is awakened; to community college, where he studies in hope of passing…
- Upon returning to Cebu for his mother's funeral, Ben Lucero, a Filipino American priest, must reexamine his ideas of home and religion.
- A book of stories set in the 1950s - 1990s with a recurring cast of Filipino immigrants and their American born children.
- Respected forensic anthropologist Father Gus Saenz and his protâegâe, Father Jerome Lucero, set out to discover who has been dumping the bodies of teenage boys in Payatas, the fifty-acre dump northeast of Manila's Quezon City.
- Three generations of women from one immigrant family trying to reconcile the home they left behind with the life they're building in America.
- A quirky, people-pleasing bookworm who is internet-famous for decorating cookies falls for the CEO of a huge tech company hailed as the next Mark Zuckerberg and the pair try to navigate their personal and professional differences together.
- When all of her secrets come to light on the night of her fabulous 40th birthday party, Ellie de Florent-Stinson, a woman greatly envied by all who know her, watches as the beautiful façade of her life crumbles in one eventful night.
- Calinda met Ramirez when she was 20 and he was 22. She was the rising star of women's skating, and he was the superstar forward of men's hockey. Ten years later, they meet again as gold medalists and prominent sports advocates, still single and…
- Reeling from her father's coma and kissing a female teacher, seventeen-year-old Corazon suddenly finds herself in the Philippines with a half-brother she had never met.
- More than a hundred years ago, a boy named Samkad thinks he knows everything about the world. He knows the mountains he lives in. He knows his people. However, Samkad's world is about to change utterly. He discovers the brother he never knew he had.…
- In the final weeks of the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during World War II, three different Filipino narrators recount the experiences of a people desperately struggling in the midst of the horrors of war.
- Celebrating the centennial of his birth, the first-ever U.S. publication of Philippine writer Nick Joaquin, who finds passion and melodrama in the nation's colonial and Catholic history.
- Opportunity knocks for a peasant boy in 19th century Philippines with the outbreak of the Spanish-American war. As an altar boy in his village, Istak is the only person able to read and write, and the Americans give him a job, in the first book of…
- Written in elegant and precise prose, Don Vicente contains two novels in F. Sionil José's classic Rosales Saga, which traces the life of one family, and that of their rural town of Rosales, from the Philippine revolution against Spain through the…
- Labeled "brown boy" by the popular kids, 16-year-old Filipino American Angelo Rivera, an outcast in his new school, becomes the leader of a group of fellow misfits who are determined to hold their own.
- These poetic vignettes on young urban gay culture follow the lives of Filipino youth in a downtrodden immigrant neighborhood in 1970s Hawaii.
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