Brian Roley is the author of the award-winning novel American Son (2001), which was a Los Angeles Times Best Book, New York Times Notable Book, Kiriyama Prize finalist, and winner of the 2003 Association of Asian American Studies Prose Book Award, among other honors. He is an English professor at Miami University in Ohio, USA.
A grandmother obsesses over her granddaughter’s un-Catholic
upbringing. A son visits his estranged father at a hospital where
he is under a suicide watch. A family imports a young maid from the
Philippines, and all hell, with love, breaks loose. In the eyes of
a dog, a boy reconnects with his deceased father. A war veteran
migrates to Los Angeles and moves into the overcrowded home of his
sister’s family to take care of their aging mother.
Written in a seemingly effortless grace and clean-eyed prose, the
short stories in Roley’s long-awaited collection, The Last Mistress
of Jose Rizal, is poignant, intimate, and heartbreaking. These
interlinked narratives – all the characters are from the same
multi-generational family – offer refreshing perspectives of the
Philippine experience in America and what it means to be a
Filipino, or a Filipino American, in the country of dreams where
they have to constantly make do with the odds, surrender to the
scars of war, childhood, and family, endure failed hopes and loves,
and grapple with the contradictions of living in-between cultures,
homes, and memories."" -- R. Zamora Linmark, author of Leche and
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