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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. 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 Anger Is a Gift “Riveting, brilliantly told and deeply moving." – Francisco X. Stork, author of Disappeared “Complex, gripping, haunting and deeply human… a story alive with longing and pain and grace. – Kelly Gilbert, author of Picture Us In The Light About the Author Randy Ribay was born in the Philippines and raised in the Midwest. He is the author of After the Shot Drops and An Infinite Number of Parallel Universes. He earned his BA in English Literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder and his Master's Degree in Language and Literacy from Harvard Graduate School of Education. He currently teaches English and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. UNANSWERED I sleep in on Saturday because I’ve got no plans beyond gaming with Seth later tonight after he finishes his shift at the sock store. So after what I’ll generously call brunch, I shuffle downstairs in my joggers and an old T-shirt, sink into the living room couch, and fire up my PS4 to make some progress in this one-player game where you battle massive robot dinosaurs in a post-apocalyptic Earth. I don’t know how many hours into this session I am when my dad’s suddenly standing behind me like he’s learned to apparate. “Jason, can you pause your game for a second?” he asks. “I’m almost at a checkpoint,” I say. “Jason . . .” he starts and then falters. He tries again. “Jason, I have something important to tell you.” “Hold on.” I know I’m being an ass, but I’m pretty sure this is probably going to be about college or something and I don’t really want to talk about that anymore. Plus, I’m in the zone fighting this mech-T-rex t
