Mikki 's Book'd Lists

Salamat, Hermana

Created by Mikki - Updated on April 28^th 2022

Inspired to learn more about my best friend, I am reading a number of Filipino and Filipino-American authors. She suggested all of these authors, who have won national and international awards.

Coming full circle : the process of decolonization among post-1965 Filipino Americans

Strobel, Leny Mendoza, author.

From the Publisher

Coming Full Circle is about the healing of the Filipino colonized psyche through the recovery and re-imagination of Filipino identity and culture. It is about the emergence from the 'culture of silence' to critical consciousness that is able to develop new conceptualizations and frameworks about the Filipino American experience.Decolonization is a psychological process that enables the colonized to understand and overcome the depths of alienation and marginalization caused by the psychic and...

My Thoughts

This book helps us understand a little of the history of the Filipines, the first wave of Filipino immigrants to the US, and the kinds of psychological struggles these realities engender.

Angel de la Luna and the 5th Glorious Mystery

Galang, M. Evelina, 1961-

From the Publisher

As a baby in her mother's womb, as a schoolgirl in Manilla, and as a reluctant immigrant to Chicago at age sixteen, Angel burns with a desire to be an activist, but learning truths about her mother and grandmother help her find peace.

My Thoughts

This YA novel covers many bases in a believable portrayal of a young girl through arresting language. It is worth the read for the language, history lessons, story, and language itself.

The ruin of everything

Stapleton, Lara, author.

From the Publisher

The Ruin of Everything tells tales of abandoned children living in adult bodies. Bastards, bi-racial half-siblings, and orphans raised by aunts, they lose their last best love through brokenness like "the impossible loop in a stress dream." Racial ambiguity abounds and confounds US color lines. Tones stretch from lugubrious sorrow to wicked dramedy. Obstinately fluid in architecture and identity, stories range from slick Hollywood glam to essayistic musings, from traditional immigrant realism,...

My Thoughts

Stapleton delivers stories that are at once believable and upending of typical perception. Her concise language delivers blows like a sculptor--hard, but artful. The collection also has one of the best pieces I have read on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

World of wonders : in praise of fireflies, whale sharks, and other astonishments

Nezhukumatathil, Aimee, author.

From the Publisher

"From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction-a collection of essays about the natural world, and the way its inhabitants can teach, support, and inspire us"-- Provided by publisher.

My Thoughts

"World of Wonders" delivers beautifully written reflections on astonishing creations and their intersections with Nezhukumatathil's family history. The reflections prove both inspiring and thought-provoking.

Lucky fish

Nezhukumatathil, Aimee.

From the Publisher

LUCKY FISH travels along a lush current—a confluence of leaping vocabulary and startling formal variety, with upwelling gratitude at its source: for love, motherhood, "new hope," and the fluid and rich possibilities of words themselves. With an exuberant appetite for "my morning song, my scurry-step, my dew," anchored in complicated human situations, this astounding young poet's third collection of poems is her strongest yet.

My Thoughts

This collection of award-winning poetry has poems that offer poems that are both intriguing and understandable. They invite the reader to look again not because they are difficult to read, but because the images are interesting enough to want to return to.