![]() ![]() “Because I didn’t have that mirror growing up. “First and foremost, I was writing it for Filipino Americans, that was the primary audience in mind - Filipino American teenagers,” he said. ![]() The author of two other books for young adults, Ribay says that in many ways “Patron Saints of Nothing” is his most personal work yet. ![]() They would periodically visit throughout his childhood. “I wanted to position Jay as a learner,” Ribay said, noting that while Jay’s journey was an extreme one, the questions he had about identity were ones that many second generation Americans often experience.īorn in the Philippines to a Filipino father and a white mother, Ribay and his family moved to the U.S. As Jay heads to his uncle’s house and begins to uncover what really happened to Jun, he realizes that things are more complicated than he expected them to be. ![]()
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