Growing Up Filipino Book 3: New Stories for Young Adults is a collection of 25 short stories about the experience of growing up Filipino. Edited by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, this book follows two earlier critically acclaimed anthologies:
Growing Up Filipino: Stories for Young Adults published in 2003 and
Growing Up Filipino II: More Stories for Young Adults published in 2010.
Growing Up Filipino Book 3 continues the same level of excellence that the earlier books achieved.
While universal themes of coming-of-age, angst, love, family, relationships and other young adult issues are explored in Growing Up Filipino Book 3, this anthology offers far more than teenage accounts. These stories reveal Filipino and Filipino American mores, culture, history, society, politics, and other nuances.
For instance, Filipino respect for the elders, extended families, religious practices, funereal rites, love for folklore are apparent in the stories. Politics and history, even though in the background, are inherent in many stories. The class system in the Philippines is evident in the stories. The complex historical and political ties between the Philippines and the United States are also in the book.
Many of the authors in this collection are established writers; all are accomplished. The editor, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, is the author and editor of over twenty books.
