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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 […]
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New memoir celebrates Filipino roots, Batangas heritage and culture
“Batangas: My Sky and Earth” honors the late brother of Vancouver-based author Bong Serrano. Written as a heartfelt tribute to his older brother, Kuya Boying, who succumbed to kidney cancer in 2014, Bong Serrano’s debut work provides readers with fond memories of Batangueño life and culture through this meticulously researched book. The province of Batangas […]
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The death of King Phojanakong opens 2023, the end of ‘Here Lies Love’ finishes the year
The passing of Chef KING PHOJANAKONG on January 2 was an upsetting way to start the year 2023 for the Filipino American community. The beloved owner of Kuma Inn on the Lower East Side died from a rare amoeba infection, according to his family. The culinary community was in grief. The arrival of new Consul […]
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Marissa Bañez’s 2nd children’s book is out
By Cristina DC Pastor Filipina immigrant, Marissa Bañez is a Princeton University graduate and an attorney licensed in New York, New Jersey, and California, and an award-winning author of two children’s books, “Hope and Fortune” and “Hues and Harmony (How the Rainbow Butterfly Got Her Colors).” She was featured in The FilAm in 2022 after […]