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Growing Up Filipino: Stories for Young Adults — Now in Hardcover & New Cover

February 17, 2021 by admin Leave a Comment

The  col­lec­tion of sto­ries, GROWING UP FILIPINO: STORIES FOR YOUNG ADULTS,  now has a hard­cov­er edi­tion (ISBN 9781953716002).

For a lit­tle while it is avail­able for $28 in Ama­zon. The price will go up on 2/26/21.

https://www.amazon.com/Growing-Up-Filipino…/dp/1953716008

The soft­cov­er edi­tion also has a new cover.

GROWING UP FILIPINO was the first pub­li­ca­tion of PALH (Philip­pine Amer­i­can Lit­er­ary House). Writ­ten by estab­lished and emerg­ing writ­ers, the book delves into uni­ver­sal but at the same time per­son­al themes of how it is to grow up Fil­ipino.  The book has received received crit­i­cal acclaim.
Final­ist for the Philip­pine Nation­al Book Award, this col­lec­tion of sto­ries along with the fol­low-up book GROWNG UP FILIPINO: MORE STORIES FOR YOUNG ADULTS con­tin­ues to be read and used by edu­ca­tors. Last sum­mer, the Nation­al Geo­graph­ic includ­ed both books in its Sum­mer Read­ing list.
Here are some book review excerpts of the book:
School Library Journal: 
“These 29 short sto­ries offer a high­ly tex­tured por­trait of Fil­ipino youth and an excel­lent sam­pling of cre­ative writ­ing. The­mat­i­cal­ly arranged, most of the pieces have been writ­ten since the turn of the 21st cen­tu­ry. Each sto­ry is intro­duced by a thumb­nail sketch of the author and a para­graph or two about some ele­ment that is rel­e­vant to the sto­ry … The high cal­iber and broad but whol­ly acces­si­ble range of this col­lec­tion, how­ev­er, makes this title a sol­id pur­chase for mul­ti­ple reasons.”
Book­bird Jour­nal Inter­na­tion­al Chil­dren’s Lit­er­a­ture (Glen­na Sloan):
“Emerg­ing and estab­lished award-win­ning writ­ers are the authors of this fine col­lec­tion of 29 sto­ries about what it means to be Fil­ipino in the Philip­pines and in the Unit­ed States … 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.”
Book­list:
“In this fine short-sto­ry col­lec­tion, 29 Fil­ipino Amer­i­can writ­ers explore the uni­ver­sal chal­lenges of ado­les­cence from the unique per­spec­tives of teens in the Philip­pines or in the U.S. Orga­nized into five sec­tions — Fam­i­ly, Angst, Friend­ship, Love, and Home — all the sto­ries are about grow­ing up and what the intro­duc­tion calls “grow­ing into Fil­ipino-ness, grow­ing with Fil­ipinos, and grow­ing in or grow­ing away from the Philip­pines … The cul­tur­al fla­vor aspect nev­er over­whelms the sto­ries, and read­ers will be drawn to the par­tic­u­lars as well as the uni­ver­sal con­cerns of fam­i­ly, friends, love, and leav­ing home.“ ‘
Book­seller can order the book from Ingram and read­ers can eas­i­ly find this book in Ama­zon, Barnes and Noble and oth­er booksellers.

For more infor­ma­tion, please vis­it:   https://ceciliabrainard.com/book/growing-up-filipino-stories-for-young-adults/

tags: young adult lit­er­a­ture, young adult fic­tion, teen lit­er­a­ture, YA fic­tion, YA short stories

Filed Under: Fiction, Uncategorized Tagged With: Philippine literature, YA fiction

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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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