The Caprices by Sabina Murray + Author Profile [in Bloomsbury Review]
01 Jan, by in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Filipina/o, Filipina/o American, Repost, Short Stories
Writing from a Different Place: A Profile of 2003 PEN/Faulkner Award Winner Sabina Murray
When Sabina Murray first heard that she had won the prestigious 2003 PEN/Faulkner Award for her short story collection The Caprices, she thought...
Her Bum Is on Fire: Jessica Hagedorn debuts with her latest novel
After years of chatting on the phone and sending various e-mails back and forth, I finally got the chance to meet writer extraordinaire...
Since the lifting of immigration laws in 1965, the U.S. medical work force has had huge support from growing numbers of Filipino-trained medical staff arriving on U.S. shores, especially Filipino nurses. Choy...
An overwhelming, necessary, eye-witnessing anthology of the legacy of a century of colonial – political, economic, and especially social – occupation of the Philippines by the United States.
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A Filipino family and friends struggle to survive the brutal Japanese occupation during World War II.
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Dogeaters Run
Jessica Hagedorn still sees her bestselling classic, 
Three novellas about three remarkable, though ultimately tragic Filipino women: Narita, a politician trying to escape her poverty-stricken past, Ermita, a very high class prostitute in search of true love, and Malu,...
Ben Lucero, a Filipino American priest, arrives in the Philippines for the first time to bury his mother in her homeland. As a guest of his Aunt Clara, his mother’s lifelong best friend, he experiences the...
A collection of stories, mostly set in Manila, inspired by real life stories and newspaper articles, focusing on the desperate citizens of a troubled country trying to survive poverty, government corruption, and loss of...