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“Brilliant, honest, and equal parts heartbreaking and soul-healing.” —Laurie Halse Anderson, author of SHOUT
“A singular voice in the world of literature.” —Jason Reynolds, author of Long Way Down
A powerful coming-of-age story about grief, guilt, and the risks a Filipino-American teenager takes to uncover the truth about his cousin's murder.

Jay Reguero plans to spend the last semester of his senior year playing video games before heading to the University of Michigan in the fall. But when he discovers that his Filipino cousin Jun was murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, and no one in the family wants to talk about what happened, Jay travels to the Philippines to find out the real story.
Hoping to uncover more about Jun and the events that led to his death, Jay is forced to reckon with the many sides of his cousin before he can face the whole horrible truth — and the part he played in it.
As gripping…
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278 Druckseiten
Ursprüngliche Veröffentlichung
2019
Jahr der Veröffentlichung
2019
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Ersteindruck

  • juanmanuelliehat einen Ersteindruck geteiltvor 2 Jahren
    😄LOLZ

    Hmmmppffff, so far, the story feels like overstretched for me, I think? It took me a long time to finish since it appears to be a slow burn. Just be careful in distinguishing some information since characters such as Tito Maning assume strong opinion- albeit conceived out of extreme fanaticism. I'm still discerning what to say in general LOL. I'm still halfway the book so I'll probably give further inputs later, if there are any.

    EDIT: Soooooooo, the book was good on its own but I didn't like it that much??? The plot was decent but it was placed in a lengthy manner? To be fair, it's a YA novel din naman so it was probably great on its own. Idk HHAHAHAHAHA

Zitate

  • juanmanuelliehat Zitat gemachtvor 2 Jahren
    “Do you know the Americans stole entire villages and then displayed them in your country as if they were animals in a zoo?”

    There's this fair (that I forgot the name) where they display and demonstrate small villages led by ethnolinguistic tribes from the Philippines. However, this had been misconstrued so much that the foreigners thought that native Filipinos eat dogs for a living.

    It's St. Louis World's Fair of 1904.

  • juanmanuelliehat Zitat gemachtvor 2 Jahren
    The camera kept cutting between shots of the goat’s smug face and the desperate squeezing of its unyielding teats. I said, “That’s like trying to talk to Dad on the phone,”
  • juanmanuelliehat Zitat gemachtvor 2 Jahren
    There’s that story from the Bible where Abraham was ready to kill Isaac because God told him to and only didn’t because God was like, “JK lol.”

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