COMING JUNE 2019Jay 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. |
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.
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ABOUT
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Randy Ribay writes young adult novels and teaches high school English. He was born in the Philippines but grew up in Michigan and Colorado. He's a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. After living and teaching on the east coast for a decade, Randy now calls the San Francisco Bay Area home. In his all-too-sparse free time he reads, hikes, rock climbs, cuddles with his wife & two dogs, watches great TV (everything from Bachelor in Paradise to Battlestar Galactica), plays video games & tabletop games, and spends an ungodly amount of time on the Internet. He is represented by Beth Phelan at Gallt & Zacker Literary Agency. Stalk him on social media below.
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NOVELS
PATRON SAINTS OF NOTHING
(Kokila/Penguin Random House, forthcoming 2019) AFTER THE SHOT DROPS (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018) AN INFINITE NUMBER OF PARALLEL UNIVERSES (Merit Press/Simon Pulse, 2015) SHORT STORIES
"Snow-Covered Sidewalks"
WELCOME HOME, edited by Eric Smith (Flux Books, 2017) "Mason, On His Way Home" READING GLASSES, edited by Amy Holiday & Jessica Walsh (Hypothetical Press, 2014) |
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