{"id":56330,"date":"2018-04-30T01:09:27","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T01:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56330"},"modified":"2018-04-30T01:09:27","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T01:09:27","slug":"american-son-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56330","title":{"rendered":"American Son: A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.wwnorton.com\/books\/978-0-393-32154-8\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>American Son: A Novel<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.wwnorton.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">W. W. Norton &amp; Company<\/a><br \/>\nMay 2001<br \/>\n256 pages<br \/>\n5.6 \u00d7 8.3 in<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN 978-0-393-32154-8<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brianroley.weebly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Brian Ascalon Roley<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.wwnorton.com\/books\/978-0-393-32154-8\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.wwnorton.com\/dam_booktitles\/845\/img\/cover\/9780393321548_300.jpeg\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>A powerful novel about ethnically fluid <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/California\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California<\/a>, and the corrosive relationship between two Filipino brothers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Told with a hard-edged purity that brings to mind <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cormac_McCarthy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cormac McCarthy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Denis_Johnson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Denis Johnson<\/a>, <em>American Son<\/em> is the story of two Filipino brothers adrift in contemporary California. The older brother, Tomas, fashions himself into a Mexican gangster and breeds pricey attack dogs, which he trains in German and sells to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cinema_of_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hollywood<\/a> celebrities. The narrator is younger brother Gabe, who tries to avoid the tar pit of Tomas&#8217;s waywardness, yet moves ever closer to embracing it. Their mother, who moved to America to escape the caste system of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manila\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manila<\/a> and is now divorced from their American father, struggles to keep her sons in line while working two dead-end jobs. When Gabe runs away, he brings shame and unforeseen consequences to the family. Full of the ache of being caught in a violent and alienating world, <em>American Son<\/em> is a debut novel that captures the underbelly of the modern immigrant experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A powerful novel about ethnically fluid California, and the corrosive relationship between two Filipino brothers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11,14646,8,15,6462,20],"tags":[12426,455,757],"class_list":["post-56330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-books","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-brian-ascalon-roley","tag-california","tag-w-w-norton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56331,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56330\/revisions\/56331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}