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Six women and their stories in pursuit of justice
By Lindy Rosales On a cloudy spring day, it was a pleasure to walk through the verdant grounds of Harvard University on the way to the Asean Center. Parking is a scarcity in this university town unless you have a resident permit, or it’s a Sunday. We were to attend the book launch of “Six […]
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Patricia Evangelista book wins NYPL’s Helen Bernstein award
The New York Public Library announced on May 2 that Patricia Evangelista is the winner of the 2024 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism for Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country published by Penguin Random House. Journalist Patricia Evangelista came of age in the aftermath of a street revolution that […]
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How a noodle cook found love, riches, and the perfect bowl of soup
A new book based on the true story of Ma Mon Luk, known for popularizing mami noodle soup and his eponymous restaurants in the Philippines, will be out on April 2, 2024. Author and anthologist of immigrant food stories Jacqueline Chio-Lauri and award-winning New Yorker illustrator Kristin Sorra bring the historical tale to life for […]
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Writer Margarita Bruce: Finding joy in life’s many possibilities
By Maricar CP Hampton Margarita Tayone Bruce came to the U.S. in 1993 and was fascinated by the tech-operated doors she had never seen in Cebu City where she grew up. As a new immigrant, she would go to a bank, grocery stores, any building and watched as the sliding glass doors opened without her […]
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A historically obscure war
By Allen Gaborro James R. Arnold’s book, “The Moro War: How America Battled a Muslim Insurgency in the Philippine Jungle, 1902-1913,” turns our attention to a historically-obscure war, obscured by studies done in the service of elitist and colonial interests. That war was the Philippine-American War of colonization (1899-1902). In the aftermath of that war […]
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Flight attendant publishes children’s book on travel, adventure
A new children’s book on the joy of flying is now out in the market! Filipino American inspirational author Lia Ocampo has released “We Love Flying: How to Inspire Kids to Follow Their Dreams to Fly.” A flight attendant by profession, Ocampo takes young readers and their parents on a journey through the world of […]
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The women of ‘First Draft’
By Elizabeth Lolarga In my 30s, I joined the Women Writers in Media Now (still existing but under a different and shortened name), which put out two ground-breaking volumes, published by New Day, with an all-women authorship. Decades passed before I joined anything like it. It was everybody’s cultural heroine Gilda Cordero-Fernando who told me […]
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The Filipina as lover, fighter in ‘The Hurricane Wars’
By Allen Gaborro It wasn’t that Thea Guanzon’s novel “The Hurricane Wars” had achieved the status of a New York Times bestseller or that it was written in the alluring fantasy romance category that tempted me to write about it. With exceptions, I tend to be deaf to the sound of “bestseller” and the fantasy […]
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TheFilAm.Net Books of 2023
By Tricia J. Capistrano In the last few years more and more Filipino American stories are being published in the United States. What an exciting time for us and for our children! Here’s our select list of books we wish everyone would find time to read. We included some passages from their cover blurbs. This […]