Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn + Author Profile [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]
01 Feb, by in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Filipina/o, Filipina/o American, Repost, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American, Young Adult Readers
Dogeaters Run
Jessica Hagedorn still sees her bestselling classic, Dogeaters, as a mini-series, “like The Sopranos,” she insists. “It’s the only reason I got HBO!” she says. Never mind that Michael Greif, director of the...
The Girl in the Picture
It is undoubtedly the most famous image of the tragedy of War: in its center, a young, naked girl screams in agony and terror, her thin...
With A Blessing Over Ashes: The Remarkable Odyssey of My Unlikely Brother, Adam Fifield adds a new twist to the currently trendy suffering-child memoir boom (a lá Angela’s Ashes – and really, no disrespect...
At a beautiful day at the beach, Xiao Ming learns to write Chinese characters with his mother in the sand. To Xiao Ming, the characters are much like drawing simple pictures: a...
During a winter walk through the forest, Xiao Ming’s mother teaches him new Chinese characters, using the white snow to draw the picture-like characters. Delightful companion title to 
During a drought, the Toad decides to ask the King of Heaven for rain. On his journey, he is joined by the Bees, the Rooster, and...
Beautiful Lotus is unable to hear or speak. Ostracized by the other children, she is lonely and sad. Her parents take her to the local temple where she sees temple dancers for the first...
Amabel and Nettie are two elderly boars who live in the jungle. Amabel is nice, Nettie is mean. Amabel is rewarded for her goodness, especially by the mother crocodile whose baby Amabel cares for....
A young husband is called off to war, leaving his wife behind. The tree spirit assumes the husband’s image and goes to live with the wife. The real husband returns and must seek the...
Hien’s village is destroyed during the Vietnam War, killing her mother and grandmother. Hien is seriously injured and must go to the U.S. for an operation; after, she begins to live with an American...
Young Ut recently arrived in the U.S. from Vietnam with her siblings and father, but the family still waits for their mother. Ut’s new life is difficult, as other students...
A debut collection of interrelated short stories, predominantly about the Filipino American community in Honolulu – from young teenagers discovering their sexuality and coming to terms with their ethnicity to older citizens...
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,...
Eleven-year-old Esha comes of age in Singapore of the late 1960s, a time of growing political strife between the predominantly Chinese government and the local Singaporeans and their supporters. Esha’s...
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 short stories, some interrelated, about the experiences of young Filipino American men living displaced lives, caught between their emotional ties to their families back in the Philippines, and their...
The autobiography of writer and poet Carlos Bulosan, from his boyhood in the Philippines, to his arrival in America, to the difficulties he faced as a migrant laborer....