Growing Up Filipino

"Emerging and established award-winning writers are the authors of this fine collection of 29 stories about what it means to be young and Filipino in the Philippines and in the United States. Filipinos in America are now the second largest in the umbrella group of Asian Americans, yet there is a scarcity of books by and for Filipinos. This impressive array captures the complexities of both the Filipino culture and history and the realities of the lives of young adults no matter what their ethnic affiliation. Each story is assigned to one of five universal themes: family, angst, friendship, love, and home." by Glenna Sloan, BookBird Journal International. Children's Literature, published by IBBY.

First sentence: When my Lola Sim, my mother's mother, died after my sixteenth birthday, no one wanted to open her armoire.

Year

2003

Language

English

Publisher

PALH

Editions

5

Pages

284

ISBN

9780971945807

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