"As sharp and fast as a street boy's razor . . . a rich small feast of a book."--The New York Times Book Review
Welcome to Manila in the turbulent period of the Philippines' late dictator. It is a world in which American pop culture and local Filipino tradition mix flamboyantly, and gossip, storytelling, and extravagant behavior thrive. A wildly disparate group of characters--from movie stars to waiters, from a young junkie to the richest man in the Philippines--becomes caught up in a spiral of events culminating in a beauty pageant, a film festival, and an assassination....
"As sharp and fast as a street boy's razor . . . a rich small feast of a book."--The New York Times Book Review
An elegant and smart novel by the author of "Dogeaters" which captures the pain of leaving one country behind and the struggle to adapt to a new one, "The Gangster of Love" tells the story of the Rivera family from the Philippines, who have come to the United States to make a new life.
An elegant and smart novel by the author of "Dogeaters" which captures the pain of leaving one country behind and the struggle to adapt to a new one, ...
More than a decade after its initial publication, the groundbreaking anthology Charlie Chan Is Dead remains the best available source for contemporary Asian American fiction. Edited by acclaimed novelist and National Book Award nominee Jessica Hagedorn, Charlie Chan Is Dead 2: At Home in the World brings together forty-two fresh, fascinating voices in Asian American writing from classics by Jose Garcia Villa and Wakako Yamauchi to exciting new fiction from Akhil Sharma, Ruth Ozeki, Chang-Rae Lee, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Monique Truong. Sweeping in background and literary style, from...
More than a decade after its initial publication, the groundbreaking anthology Charlie Chan Is Dead remains the best available source for conte...
Hagedorn muses about love and sex, and probes with wry humor and sharp social satire the heart-and hearbreaks-of the immigrant experience. Here in one volume are this exciting writer's first two books, Dangerous Music and Pet Food & Tropical Apparitions, along with a generous selection of her work that reveals a powerful and writty continuation of her journey as a singer and searcher, woman and questioner.
-Jessica Hagedorn is one of the best of a new generation of writers who are making American language new and who in the process are creating a new American...
Hagedorn muses about love and sex, and probes with wry humor and sharp social satire the heart-and hearbreaks-of the immigrant experience. Here in ...
