Tuesday, September 16th at 6 PM.
Please join us at 6 PM on Tuesday, September 16th, in the 2nd-floor Community Room for a discussion of The Son of Good Fortune by lysley Tenorio. South San Francisco Parks and Recreation, 901 Civic Campus Way
ABOUT THE BOOK
Son of Good Fortune: A Novel by Lysley Tenorio
Excel seems like a normal Filipino American teenager, but he's got a big secret. He and his highly unconventional mother—a former B-movie actress turned online scammer, are tago ng tago: hiding and hiding. The fact that they are undocumented means that, despite his best efforts, he will never be a normal American teenager. Unable to forgive his mother for the life she has forced him into, Excel escapes to the remote desert town of Hello City to live freely among the drifters, old hippies, and washed-up techies. But a disastrous misstep forces him back into his mother's house, where he must reconcile himself with the choices she made for his protection, both good and bad. Tenorio creates an unusual perspective on Filipino culture and inspires readers to reflect on what it means to be an undocumented American from birth. What it means, essentially, to not belong anywhere. A thoughtful and challenging first novel.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lysley Tenorio is the author of the novel The Son of Good Fortune and the story collection Monstress, which was named a book of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Whiting Award, a Stegner fellowship, the Edmund White Award, and the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as residencies from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Bogliasco Foundation. His stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Zoetrope: All-Story, and Ploughshares, and have been adapted for the stage by The American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and the Ma-Yi Theater in New York City. Born in the Philippines, he lives in San Francisco, and is a professor at Saint Mary's College of California.
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