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The Oracles: My Filipino Grandparents in America
Pati Navalta Poblete
#UB9642
Paperback, 123 pages; 2006
$13.95
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Poor little Pati, the American-born daughter of Filipino parents: while she was trying hard to fit into the 1980s teenage culture of the California public schools, all four grandparents came—one by one—to live with her family. Her parents appreciated the help with the childcare and housework, but Pati resented being stuck between two cultures, and having all those extra parental eyes on her, while she was trying to be a "normal" teenager. Young Pati alternated between loving and hating her grandparents. Ultimately, she recognized the wisdom in what they were trying to teach her, and came to consider them her oracles. The dilemma Pati Navalta Poblete faced is familiar to that of many first-generation Americans—how to fit into the intoxicating American way of life without abandoning the history and culture of their ancestors. Poblete tells her story with an endearing sincerity and honest simplicity.
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