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Growing Up Filipino 3 Finalist for 41st National Book Awards

November 7, 2023 by admin Leave a Comment

I just learned that the book, GROWING UP FILIPINO 3 is a final­ist for the 41st Nation­al Book Award (Anthol­o­gy, English).
I am grate­ful to the Nation­al Book Devel­op­ment Board – Philip­pines, Mani­la Crit­ics Cir­cle, UST Pub­lish­ing House, and con­trib­u­tors to the anthology:
Gina Apos­tol, Kan­ni­ka Pena, Jack Wigley, Veron­i­ca Montes, Nik­ki Alfar, Yvette Fer­nan­dez, Dan­ton Remo­to, Cecil­ia Brainard, George Deoso, Patri­cia Manuel Go, Migs Bra­vo Dutt, Ian Caso­cot, James Fajar­i­to, Sarge Lacues­ta, Dom Sy, Eileen Tabios, Mar­i­anne Vil­lanue­va, Mar­i­lyn Alquizo­la, Bri­an Roley, Patrick Joseph Caoile, Zak Lin­mark, Lin­da Ty-Casper, Renee Macali­no Rut­ledge, Noelle De Jesus, and Oscar Penaranda.
The anthol­o­gy Grow­ing Up Fil­ipino 3 is avail­able from the UST book­store, Laza­da, Shopee, Ama­zon, and Barnes and Noble. Look for it at Ful­ly Booked as well.
For Book Reviews about Grow­ing Up Fil­ipino 3 — please click here: 
Tags: Fil­ipino YA books, Fil­ipino YA fic­tion, Fil­Am lit­er­a­ture, Fil­Am YA, Fil­ipino teens, Fil­ipino youths, Fil­ipino Amer­i­can youths

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I am a daugh­ter of the Philip­pines and an adopt­ed daugh­ter of Amer­i­ca. I have also trav­eled to many places so I am also a daugh­ter of the Earth. My expe­ri­ences have found their way into my sto­ries, which try to depict char­ac­ters caught in impor­tant moments in their lives, sit­u­a­tions that force them to act, make deci­sions, change. I try to see the world from my own point of view, not the dom­i­nant West­ern one, thus my inter­est in his­to­ry, cul­ture, and set­ting. But my char­ac­ters car­ry my sto­ries; they are the most impor­tant in my sto­ry-telling. I have to dive deep into them to under­stand their human­i­ty – their good­ness as well as their bad­ness, their beau­ty as well as their ugli­ness. Just like us. Just like each of us. I need to know where they came from, where they are now, so I under­stand where they are going. Just like us.

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