When the hibiscus falls / M. Evelina Galang.

"M. Evelina Galang's stories center on the experiences of Filipina women and families and interweave Filipino folklore and Tagalog, quietly but insistently challenging racialized capitalism and the exclusion of the Filipino American experience from racial discourse in the U.S. while also making clea...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Galang, M. Evelina, 1961- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2023.
Subjects:
Filipino Americans > Fiction.
Filipinos > Fiction.
Women > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
Generations > Fiction.
Women.
Generations.
Filipino Americans.
Families.
Filipinos.
Psychological fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
Short stories.
Genre:
Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Short stories.
Physical Description:237 pages ; 21 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Strength is the woman
  • I. America, still beautiful ; Drowning ; The typhoon is a hurricane ; The Esguerra sisters ; When the hibiscus falls
  • II. Foodie in the Philippines ; Hilot of Parañaque ; Loud girl ; Holy Thursday ; Hot mommies
  • III. Deflowering the Sampaguita ; Fighting Filipina ; The kiss ; Imelda's lullaby ; Labandera
  • Isla of the Babaylan.