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Grace Talusan shares her immigrant story that began with a green station wagon
Boston-area resident Grace Talusan is in the spotlight this June as Stories from the Stage — the WORLD Channel series that features ordinary people telling extraordinary stories — airs a national 24-hour binge-a-thon of episodes this month. Talusan was born in the Philippines and raised in New England. A graduate of Tufts University and the […]
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Jun Policarpio: Portrait of a whistleblower
By Cristina DC Pastor Society is generally distrustful of whistleblowers. Maybe because some are seen as motivated by monetary rewards or as persons who are not team players. Gonzalo ‘Jun’ Policarpio Jr. writes in his book how circumstances in his life turned him into a “whistleblower and a boat rocker,” and how he is proud […]
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My Filipino-American breakfast
By Jose Padua My Filipino-American breakfast of the ‘60s was the local Briggs brand pork sausage patties, sunny-side up eggs, and rice, with the runny yolks broken over the rice, and the rice and yolk and sometimes the eggs whites, too, mixed, stirred, or just turned yolk top over rice bottom depending on if my […]
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A book about grandparents and the grandchildren who love them
By Cristina DC Pastor “Si Lola Apura at si Lolo Un Momento” is the latest storybook by children’s author Iris Sheila Crisostomo-Lopez. It is a delightful story about the way families and society perceive the elderly. “It is not your typical story for children because the characters are two elderlies, which makes you ask: What […]
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Author shadows immigrant Filipino family from Manila to Texas
In a work that gives new meaning to immersion journalism, Jason DeParle, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and veteran New York Times reporter, has spent a remarkable three decades following an extended family of Filipino immigrants, from the slums of Manila to the suburbs of Houston. Through their multigenerational saga, he tells in his latest […]
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Bloomfield boy, 6, does book signing at Barnes & Noble
By Cristina DC Pastor A 6-year-old student at Watsessing School in Bloomfield, N.J. has published a book and signed copies at a Barnes & Noble book store in nearby Clifton on April 28. “I Am Jan Alexander” was written by Jan Quintos, the youngest of three children by Alex and Ethel Quintos. The book has […]
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Journalist Josie Moralidad Ziman publishes a book of inspiring FilAm profiles
Journalist Josie Moralidad Ziman launched her book “The Filipino American Journey: Stories of Survival and Success” at the Philippine Embassy Chancery Annex on April 6. The book is a collection of inspirational stories that highlight the resiliency, determination, hard work, values, and faith of the Filipino people, said Ziman in a press statement. “What ‘The […]
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Book on the brutality of Marcos’s martial law now in its 3rd edition
“Once Upon a Blue Dot” is a gripping narrative of one man’s search for identity and purpose in life in America in the midst of the tumultuous Martial Law in his own country. The author seamlessly weaves fact and fiction, bringing into stark reality the horrors of such a dark chapter in Philippine history. Notable […]
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Fascination with Jewish culture distinct in new collection of short stories
By Maricar CP Hampton It’s not often that a Filipino author writes fiction featuring Jewish characters. In “Anna and the Exodus Moon… and other Stories,” Gene Del Carmen breaks ground through the narratives of Anna whose family languishes in a concentration camp, and the teacher Mr. Cohen whose happy-go-lucky son does not appreciate the value […]