Everything We Never Had

Randy Ribay, Ramón de Ocampo, Jesse Inocalla, Manny Jacinto, JB Tadena

eAudio - 2024

Winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for LiteratureLonglisted for the National Book AwardWinner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Fiction Award 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. As he spends what little money he earns at dance halls and faces increasing violence from white men in town, Francisco wonders if he should’ve never left the Philippines.Stockton, 1965. Between school days full of prejudice from white students and teachers and... night shifts working at his aunt’s restaurant, Emil refuses to follow in the footsteps of his labor organizer father, Francisco. He’s going to make it in this country no matter... more