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Everything We Never Had by Randy Ribay
5.0
"It's that you never bothered teaching me anything about our people's history, about where we came from, because you didn't think it was important. Well, I do. And now I have to teach myself everything."
Oooph. Randy Ribay weaves Filipino history within the pages of this beautiful and painful book that highlights the Filipino diaspora and how our experiences/traumas can affect us for generations.
Everything We Never Had took me double, if not triple, the time to finish because I had to stop frequently to process my emotions and talk it out with my FilAm best friends. I saw myself, my mother, my children within these pages and... wow. I honestly am having trouble describing how I feel about this book, but it has impacted me beyond words and I look forward to rereading it.
Oooph. Randy Ribay weaves Filipino history within the pages of this beautiful and painful book that highlights the Filipino diaspora and how our experiences/traumas can affect us for generations.
Everything We Never Had took me double, if not triple, the time to finish because I had to stop frequently to process my emotions and talk it out with my FilAm best friends. I saw myself, my mother, my children within these pages and... wow. I honestly am having trouble describing how I feel about this book, but it has impacted me beyond words and I look forward to rereading it.