I put up a post the other day on this book on my more story related blog, which you can find here. Nevertheless, I think I gave the stories short shrift in my discussion of reading and readings. If like me, you don't really know a whole lot about the life of Filipinos and Filipino-Americans, you will pick up a lot from these often poignant stories. Off the top of my head, we've got the Filipino film industry, the Phillipines leper colony, the day the Beatles got into a kerfuffle with their Filipino fan base, the lives of the immigrant community in San Francisco's I Hotel, and the immigrant experience in a California place which might be heard by some to be called L'Amour. Oh yeah, and faith healers. I like the way Tenorio takes these historically based events and spins his own quite unique stories out of them. Check them out.
THE SAMURAI OF THE RED CARNATION, fascinating historical period, less
successful novel
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*THE SAMURAI OF THE RED CARNATION DENIS THÉRIAULT* (tr. Louise Rogers
Lalaurie)
Pushkin Press (*non-affiliate* Bookshop.org link)
$13.99 ebook, available...
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