THE IMPORTANCE OF PATRON SAINTS OF NOTHING | book review 002
" My tan faded. My tongue forgot the taste of tocino and Tagalog. I stepped out of tsinelas and back into my suburban life as if I had never left." Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay is a story about Jay Reguero who comes back to the Philippines in order to fathom how his cousin, Jun, was killed in President Duterte's war on drugs. This book is heavy on the current events in the Philippines and how Filipinos in the motherland and Filipino diasporas are responding. I read this book in honor of wikathon and it resonated with me for awhile after finishing it. In this blog post I will be addressing A LOT about this book because I truly feel that everyone should read it. I will not speak on what Filipinos are experiencing currently in the Philippines as I feel that I do not have the right to speak on that, although I will acknowledge it and hope people will actively be aware of it. 1. Filipino-American ignorance As a Filipino-American, I FELT THIS. Jay Reguero is som