Dark Blue Suit: And Other Stories
A Fiction book. 2.5 stars
Set in Seattle from the 1950s to the present, Dark Blue Suit depicts the lives of two groups: Filipino immigrant pioneers, the Manong generation who arrived on the Pacific Coast during the 1920s and 1930s, and their American-born children. Although narrated as fiction, the stories - their landmarks, activities, settings, and events - are grounded in historical fact. The book opens with the annual spring dispatch, by the Seattle-based Filipino union, of thousands of Filipino workers to the Alaska salmon canneries. We meet characters who reappear throughout the stories: Vince, the tough but charming union foreman, his American-born son Buddy, and many others who age and change in ironic counterpoint to persistent themes of loyalty, fierce ethnic pride, and a willingness to struggle against hostile forces in society. We encounter...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 192 pages
- ISBN: 9780295976372 / 295976373
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2.5 stars Dark Blue suit is an interesting collection of short stories about the Filipino-American experience. As are many books written concerning immigrants and 1st/1.5/2nd generation people, it is oftentimes sad. However, one of the reasons why I probably enjoyed this collection so much is that it was one of the only books about Filipinos... A collection of stories about growing up in a Filipino community in 50s Seattle. Not the awesomest writing (you might cringe at some of the dialogue and childs-perspective narration), but Filipino lit is so scarce that I'll take what I can get.
