{"id":48960,"date":"2022-01-20T11:12:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T16:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=48960"},"modified":"2022-01-14T15:32:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T20:32:11","slug":"uncle-ricos-encore-mostly-true-stories-of-filipino-seattle-by-peter-bacho-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/uncle-ricos-encore-mostly-true-stories-of-filipino-seattle-by-peter-bacho-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncle Rico\u2019s Encore: Mostly True Stories of Filipino Seattle by Peter Bacho [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-48964\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Uncle-Ricos-Encore-Peter-Bacho-BookDragon-521x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"521\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Uncle-Ricos-Encore-Peter-Bacho-BookDragon-521x800.jpg 521w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Uncle-Ricos-Encore-Peter-Bacho-BookDragon.jpg 613w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 521px) 100vw, 521px\" \/>\u201cEach morning when I rise, I pause to remember the preciousness of what I have lost, and I cherish it.\u201d Septuagenarian Peter Bacho, whose first novel, <a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/cebu-by-peter-bacho\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Cebu\u00a0<\/em><\/a>(1991), won the American Book Award, commits those memories to the page in poignant, affecting \u201cmostly true stories.\u201d Bacho\u2019s memoir opens with a literal \u201cLay of the Land\u201d \u2013 a map highlighting six Seattle neighborhoods of his childhood and marking his experiences with a pedophilic priest, a local hero, the titular Uncle Rico, Vietnam War-bound friends, and Pinoy communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWas It That Long Ago\u201d features his mother before she succumbs completely to dementia, why marshmallows are necessary for fishing, mentors and saviors, and his insistence that his 8-year-old self killed Pope Pius XII. \u201cOn Boxing, Mother, Violence, and Writing\u201d turns darker with failed relationships, chasing dangerous dreams, and the raw need \u201cto either become a writer or admit it was a fantasy.\u201d Mortality haunts the fourth and final section, \u201cA Close Call, Memories, a Last Goodbye.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Spanning the 1950s to now, Bacho\u2019s mosaic, communal Filipino American memoir expresses unexpected humor, lingering regret, deft insight, and profound gratitude.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/Uncle-Rico-s-Encore-Mostly-True-Stories-of-Filipino-Seattle-\/pid=9755084\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Fiction,&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, January 1&amp;15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEach morning when I rise, I pause to remember the preciousness of what I have lost, and I cherish it.\u201d Septuagenarian Peter Bacho, whose first novel, Cebu\u00a0(1991), won the American Book Award, commits those memories to the page in poignant, affecting \u201cmostly true stories.\u201d Bacho\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1326,107,6535,7],"tags":[6608,6668,58,10,11,24,51,39,2751,10099],"class_list":["post-48960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-filipinao-american","category-memoir","category-repost","category-short-stories","tag-bookdragon","tag-booklist","tag-coming-of-age","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-historical","tag-identity","tag-parent-child-relationship","tag-peter-bacho","tag-uncle-ricos-encore"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - 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