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About Patron Saints Of Nothing
Product Description A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST "Brilliant, honest, and equal parts heartbreaking and soul-healing." --Laurie Halse Anderson, author of SHOUT "A singular voice in the world of literature." --Jason Reynolds, author of Long Way Down A powerful coming-of-age story about grief, guilt, and the risks a Filipino-American teenager takes to uncover the truth about his cousin's murder. Jay Reguero plans to spend the last semester of his senior year playing video games before heading to the University of Michigan in the fall. But when he discovers that his Filipino cousin Jun was murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, and no one in the family wants to talk about what happened, Jay travels to the Philippines to find out the real story. Hoping to uncover more about Jun and the events that led to his death, Jay is forced to reckon with the many sides of his cousin before he can face the whole horrible truth -- and the part he played in it. As gripping as it is lyrical, Patron Saints of Nothing is a page-turning portrayal of the struggle to reconcile faith, family, and immigrant identity. From School Library Journal Gr 10 Up—Integrating snippets of Tagalog and Bikol, author Ribay displays a deep friendship between two 17-year-old cousins: Jay, born in the Philippines but raised in the United States since infancy, and Jun, born and raised in a gated community in Manila. Jay, considered white in an all-white school, is starting to get acceptances (and rejections) from colleges and finds out while playing video games that Jun, with whom he corresponded for years via "actual letters—not email or texts or DMs," is dead. His Filipino father doesn't want to talk about it, but his North American mother reveals that Jun was using drugs. Jay blames his uncle, a police chief, for his murder after researching the dictatorship of Rodrigo Duterte (the book includes a handy author's note and a list of articles and websites), who has sanctioned and perpetrated the killing of between 12,000 and 20,000 drug addicts by police and vigilantes since 2016. Jay, armed with his stack of letters, returns to Manila to search for the truth. Ribay weaves in Jun's letters so readers witness Jun's questions and his attempts to reconcile the inequity around him with his faith. Jay follows Jun's footsteps into the slums of Manila, the small house of his activist aunts, and the Catholic parish of his uncle, a village priest, and learns painful truths about his family, his home country, and himself. VERDICT Part mystery, part elegy, part coming of age, this novel is a perfect convergence of authentic voice and an emphasis on inner dialogue around equity, purpose, and reclaiming one's lost cultural identity.—Sara Lissa Paulson, City-As-School High School, New York City Review A National Book Award Finalist An NPR Best Book of the YearAn NBC News Best Asian American Young Adult Book of the YearA Paste Best Young Adult Book of the YearA New York Public Library Top 10 Best Book of the YearA Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearA Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the YearA USA Today Best Book of the Year So FarA Raleigh News & Observer Best Book of the YearAn Amazon Best Book of the YearA Junior Library Guild audio selection National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA) Freeman Book Award Winner An L.A. Times Book Award Nominee FIVE STARRED REVIEWS "Powerful and courageous." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review"Deep, nuanced, and painfully real." --Booklist, starred review"A perfect convergence of authentic voice and an emphasis on inner dialogue." -- School Library Journal, starred review"Passionately and fearlessly, Ribay delves into matters of justice, grief, and identity." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review"Compelling and informational" -- VOYA Magazine, starred review “A must-read.” – Erin Entrada Kelly, author of 2018 Newbery Award-winning Hello, Universe “Lyrical. Stunning. Searing…The real deal.”– Mark Oshiro, author of An
