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Ribay, Randy. PATRON SAINTS OF NOTHING New York : Penguin Books, [2020] IL YA ISBN 9780525554929 (3 booktalks) |
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Booktalk #1 When 17-year-old Jay Reguero hears about the death of one of his closest Filipino cousins, he is shocked and saddened, and he desperately needs to know what happened. Against the initial resistance of his family, he decides to travel to the Philippines to learn more. But when he arrives in Manila, he realizes that things there are more complicated than he expected. Nobody is willing to talk about Jun’s murder. As he discovers more about Jun’s life and unexpected death, he also begins to unravel his own immigrant story in the country of his birth. This is a beautifully written and intensely satisfying mystery that takes you on a journey that will stay with you long after you turn the last page. *Finalist, National Book Awards 2019 for Young People's Literature (Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award 2020-2021) Booktalk #2 Jay Figuero plans to spend his last semester of high school stressing about his college choice and playing video games with his friends. When he learns his cousin Jun has been murdered as part of President Duterte’s war on drugs in the Philippines, Jay is devastated. Jun was one of his closests childhood friends and Jay feels guilty for all of Jun’s letters he never answered. Determined to discover what really happened to his cousin and how he became a victim of the drug war, Jay spends his spring break traveling to reconnect with his family in the Philippines. As Jay uncovers more about Jun’s life after they lost touch, he must come to terms with his grief, anger, and the part he played in his cousin’s death. (Oklahoma Sequoyah Book Awards, 2021) Booktalk #3 In this fast-paced page turner, life is pretty good for Jay. He is finishing his last semester of high school with plans to go to the University of Michigan. All that changes with a phone call when he learns his cousin, Jun, is dead, apparently murdered in the Philippine president’s war on drugs. Jay doesn’t see how this story meshes with what he knows about Jun, but he hasn’t been close to his cousin since Jay stopped writing to him years ago. Determined to find the truth, but also to deal with his guilt, Jay heads to the Philippines. Finding the truth proves more complicated than he anticipated, but the journey helps Jay to find his voice and strengthen connections to family there and back home. (Florida Teen Reads nominees 2021) |
| SUBJECTS: Murder -- Juvenile fiction. Cousins -- Juvenile fiction. Families -- Philippines -- Juvenile fiction. Drug traffic -- Juvenile fiction. Philippines -- Juvenile fiction. |
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