“For better or for worse, the teenage voice is in my ear all day long,” he said.
With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability. Visual indication that the title is an audiobook. Ribay had a bit of an advantage when it came to capturing the voice of modern day teens in his manuscript: He’s been a high school teacher for 13 years. Patron Saints of Nothing audiobook (Unabridged) By Randy Ribay. I don’t remember reading a single book featuring a Filipino until I got to college.” “Because I didn’t have that mirror growing up. A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST 'Brilliant, honest, and equal parts heartbreaking and soul-healing. “First and foremost, I was writing it for Filipino Americans, that was the primary audience in mind - Filipino American teenagers,” he said. Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay: 9780525554929 : Books A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST 'Brilliant, honest, and equal parts heartbreaking and soul-healing.' -Laurie Halse Anderson, author of SHOUT 'A. The author of two other books for young adults, Ribay says that in many ways “Patron Saints of Nothing” is his most personal work yet.
They would periodically visit throughout his childhood. “I wanted to position Jay as a learner,” Ribay said, noting that while Jay’s journey was an extreme one, the questions he had about identity were ones that many second generation Americans often experience.īorn in the Philippines to a Filipino father and a white mother, Ribay and his family moved to the U.S. As Jay heads to his uncle’s house and begins to uncover what really happened to Jun, he realizes that things are more complicated than he expected them to be.
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