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jenlabrador's review against another edition
4.0
This was such a charming book that completely nailed the experience of growing up in a multigenerational immigrant family. Through Poblete's retelling of her childhood, I was able to finally appreciate everything that I remember feeling so embarrassed about as a brown kid growing up in America. Her close relationships with her grandparents shed a lot of light on traditions and superstitions that had just seemed weird and stupid to me growing up. And I love how this memoir gives another option of what grandparents can be like in America apart from the standard Apple Pie & Apron Granny children of the 80s grew up with as standard.
soupdumpling's review
4.0
I found this at a used bookstore and I was drawn to it because I'm always trying to think about what being Filipino-American means to me... I think the book could've ended without the last 2-3 chapters but I also see value in wrapping up one's personal story (and how the author intended this to be for her kids to remember their history and her own identity exploration). I'll be passing this forward to my students.
bettysue1224's review
4.0
English book
I was reluctant to read this due to the fact that it was an English book but I'm glad I did! Great read and easy too!
I was reluctant to read this due to the fact that it was an English book but I'm glad I did! Great read and easy too!
dunnotish's review
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
I screamed i cried i had multiple revelations
castella_and_novellas's review
emotional
slow-paced
3.0
I loved learning about the Oracles and their experience in the US, but the way the main character acted was so heartbreaking to me. How she was so resentful of her roots, and happily rebelled against it until she got older was terrible. I appreciate seeing this perspective though, but I certainly had no good feelings towards her even at the end of the book when she had grown up. I would have loved to learn more about the lives the Oracles lived instead, but I understand this was all in the perspective of the main character.
Content Warnings
Minor: Drug use
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