Books

Rocky Rivera arrives in the U.S. from the Philippines the day that Jimi Hendrix dies. So begins a blazing coming-of-age story suffused with the...

May Day Eve and Other Stories is a quintet of unsettling tales of mystery, religious zeal and passion. It features the title story "May Day Eve" as...

It is the story of a 15 year old boy who joined the Katipunan. KKK at that time, the secret revolutionary society has just been discovered by the S...

First published in 1943, this classic memoir by well-known Filipino poet Carlos Bulosan describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to Am...

Seventeen-year-old Bobby Heredia keeps seeing his double, Candido. whom no one else can see. Seemingly gifted with the ability to literally see thr...

THE THIRDEST WORLD includes the work of Gina Apostol, Eric Gamalinda, and Lara Stapleton, winners of the Philippine National Book Award, the Philip...

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's poetic new novel, The Newspaper Widow, is set in the Philippines in 1909 during the early years of the United State's ...

In her debut novel, Patty Enrado highlights a compelling but buried piece of American history: the Filipino-American contribution to the farm labo...

A posthumous response to his classic America is in the Heart, this collection of original, hitherto unpublished stories by Carlos Bulosan revealed ...

A powerful novel about ethnically fluid California, and the corrosive relationship between two Filipino brothers. Told with a hard-edged purity tha...

Janet Stickmon's Midnight Peaches, Two O'Clock Patience is a mantra, a spell cast to acknowledge ancestral connection, the multiple gazes upon the ...

It begins with a body. On a clear day in winter, the battered corpse of Crispin Salvador is pulled from the Hudson River. Gone, too, is the only m...

An anomalous kiss. A white turtle ferrying the dreams of the dead. A working siesta in a five-star hotel. A woman’s twelve metre-hair trawling corp...

Born to an impoverished warlord clan, twins Hector and Katerina come to dominate the Philippines through their political and social maneuvering. By...

“Reading habits may have changed a great deal. But people still tell each other stories the same way they always have. It remains one of the most ...