EAN: 9780593857168

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

Winner of the Asian Pacific American Award for Literature Longlisted for the National Book Award Winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Fiction Award From the author of the National Book Award finalist Patron Saints of Nothing comes an emotionally charged moving novel about four generations of Filipino American boys grappling with identity masculinity and their fraught father-son relationships. Watsonville 1930. Francisco Maghabol barely ekes out a living in the fields of California. As he spends what little money he earns at dance halls and faces increasing violence from white men in town Francisco wonders if he should’ve never left the Philippines. Stockton 1965. Between school days full of prejudice from white students and teachers and night shifts working at his aunt’s restaurant Emil refuses to follow in the footsteps of his labor organizer father Francisco. He’s going to make it in this country no matter what or who he has to leave behind. Denver 1983. Chris is determined to prove that his overbearing father Emil can’t control him. However when a missed assignment on “ancestral history” sends Chris off the football team and into the library he discovers a desire to know more about Filipino history―even if his father dismisses his interest as unamerican and unimportant. Philadelphia 2020. Enzo struggles to keep his anxiety in check as a global pandemic breaks out and his abrasive grandfather moves in. While tensions are high between his dad and his lolo Enzo’s daily walks with Lolo Emil have him wondering if maybe he can help bridge their decades-long rift. Told in multiple perspectives Everything We Never Had unfolds like a beautifully crafted nesting doll where each Maghabol boy forges his own path amid heavy family and societal expectations passing down his flaws values and virtues to the next generation until it’s up to Enzo to see how he can braid all these strands and men together.

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