Lysley A Tenorio
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
This heartrending, funny and utterly original collection of stories, exploring the clash and meld of American and Filipino culture, centers around the sometimes suffocating ties of family, the melancholy of isolation and the need to find connections.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"An undocumented Filipino teenager redefines his relationships with his mother, his culture, and the place he calls home"-- Provided by publisher.
Excel spends his days trying to seem like an unremarkable American teenager, he carefully avoids the spotlight. But Excel knows that his family is far from normal. His mother, Maxima, was once a Filipina B-movie action star who now makes her living scamming men online. The old man they live with is not...
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