![]() ![]() ![]() Keane says that her parents “ were aging and talking about their regrets, couples I thought of as solid were splitting up, people were drinking far too much, losing jobs, risking things we’d all worked so hard to get.” She was particularly affected by her husband’s long estrangement from his parents and began to look for a way to explain that break to their children. She explains, “It was as if I reached 40 and everyone started losing it a little, and I began ‘Ask Again, Yes’” - a contemporary saga of two suburban New York families, which debuts this week at No. Mary Beth Keane, who brought Typhoid Mary to life in her last novel, “ Fever,” was researching another historical novel when, she says, “real life kept intervening in the form of one crisis after another, either in my own family or those of my friends, so it began feeling more and more odd to turn away from the drama of real life just to step into made-up drama of the past.” ![]()
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![]() Something where she can make her own hours but still feel intellectually fulfilled and get outside sometimes And not have to wear high heels. Lead her away from Acting but not all the way to Finance. When crossing the street, stepping onto boats, swimming in the ocean, swimming in pools, walking near pools, standing on the subway platform, crossing 86th Street, stepping off of boats, using mall restrooms, getting on and off escalators, driving on country roads while arguing, leaning on large windows, walking in parking lots, riding Ferris wheels, roller-coasters, log flumes, or anything called “Hell Drop,” “Tower of Torture,” or “The Death Spiral Rock ‘N Zero G Roll featuring Aerosmith,” and standing on any kind of balcony ever, anywhere, at any age. When the Crystal Meth is offered, May she remember the parents who cut her grapes in half And stick with Beer. May she be Beautiful but not Damaged, for it’s the Damage that draws the creepy soccer coach’s eye, not the Beauty. May neither Chinese symbol for truth nor Winnie-the-Pooh holding the FSU logo stain her tender haunches. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jamero describes his early life in a farm-labor camp in Livingston, California, and the path that took him, through naval service and graduate school, far beyond Livingston. ![]() ![]() His book is a sequel of sorts to Carlos Bulosan’s America Is in the Heart, with themes of heartbreaking struggle against racism and poverty and eventual triumph. ![]() residency to the liberalization of immigration laws in 1965. Their experiences span the gap between these early immigrants and those Filipinos who owe their U.S. Peter Jamero’s story of hardship and success illuminates the experience of what he calls the “bridge generation” - the American-born children of the Filipinos recruited as farm workers in the 1920s and 30s. It was a place where the values of fairness and freedom often fell short when Filipinos put them to the test.”"- Peter Jamero As a campo boy, I also began to see the two faces of America, a place where Filipinos were at once welcomed and excluded, were considered equal and were discriminated against. It was as a campo boy that I first learned the values of family, community, hard work, and education. It was as a ‘campo’ boy that I first learned of my ancestral roots and the sometimes tortuous path that Filipinos took in sailing halfway around the world to the promise that was America. "I may have been like other boys, but there was a major difference - my family included 80 to 100 single young men residing in a Filipino farm-labor camp. ![]() |