Randy Ribay

Aug 28, 2024 | audiofilemagazine.com | Randy Ribay

Four narrators depict intergenerational Filipino sons and fathers over the course of a century. Ramón de Ocampo portrays young Francisco, who works tirelessly on California farms in the 1930s, occasionally regretting having left his Philippines home. JB Tadena captures angry Emil, who lives and works in poverty after Francisco, now an adult, deserts his family to pursue Filipino rights in 1965.

Aug 27, 2024 | bookbrowse.com | Randy Ribay

Book Summary 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.

Aug 1, 2024 | slj.com | Randy Ribay |Georgia Christgau

Gr 9 Up–National Book Award finalist Ribay juggles skillfully and with great heart a Filipino American family history as told by four generations of fathers and sons in alternating chapters. Readers first meet 16-year-old Enzo, the youngest, in Philadelphia at the start of the 2020 pandemic. “Murder hornets” is the euphemism he names the anxiety he’s in therapy for, which kicks in big time as he learns about the virus killing people.

May 16, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Randy Ribay |Cherry Mo |Karol Hernandez |Maisha Oso

Everything We Never HadRibay (Patron Saints of Nothing) examines masculinity and familial trauma via four generations of Filipino teens’ alternating perspectives in this emotionally resonant tale. In 2020 Philadelphia, Enzo Maghabol’s anxiety makes him feel like his head is full of “murder hornets.” Their buzzing gets worse when he learns his estranged grandfather will be moving in with his family during the pandemic.

Sep 15, 2023 | player.captivate.fm | Anton Hur |Randy Ribay |Shifa Safadi |Suma Subramaniam

00:00:00 00:38:41 Share Start at Embed On our mid-month check in for September 2023, we review the latest Asian American book and publishing announcements, as well as catch up on some news from the ongoing literary awards season.