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Patron Saints of Nothing

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內容簡介 傑伊準備畢業上大學，跟其他的高三生一樣，好像未來都安排好了，平常沒事就打打電動。但一個突如其來的消息撼動了他的人生。跟他同齡的堂弟朱恩，在菲律賓被槍殺，成了杜特蒂掃毒戰的受害者。傑伊家在美國，他的爸爸是菲律賓人，爸爸那邊的親戚大多都住在菲律賓。以前傑伊跟堂弟非常要好。回菲律賓時，他們總是玩在一起，也會談深入的內心話。傑伊回美國後，跟朱恩通信了很長一段時間。即便在網路時代，他們依然用紙筆寫信。只是後來傑伊漸漸疏於回信，他們的通信就停止了。如今，傑伊該如何悼念他？他有資格悼念他嗎？他有一種模模糊糊的不真實感。朱恩的家人不願意再談到他，甚至拒絕替他辦喪事，這更加深了傑伊的困惑。不久後，他從IG收到了一個神祕訊息，告訴他朱恩命不該絕。他決定要飛去菲律賓，查出關於朱恩的真相。然而真相是複雜的，追尋真相可能是危險的，他會在自己不熟悉的故鄉走入怎樣的境地？驚豔各大文學獎■ 美國國家書卷獎青少年文學類決選■ 愛倫坡獎決選■ 卡內基文學獎決選■ 洛杉磯時報青少年小說獎決選■ 美國英語教師協會青少年文學學會華登獎決選■ 國家亞洲教育聯盟傅里曼圖書獎無數媒體、組織爭相推薦的「年度最佳書籍」全國公共廣播電台∣NBC新聞∣Paste雜誌∣出版人週刊∣科克斯書評∣今日美國報∣羅里新聞觀察報∣菲律賓每日詢問者報∣亞馬遜網路書店∣美國青少年圖書館協會∣德州圖書館員協會∣青少年圖書館服務協會∣紐約公共圖書館∣Buzzfeed∣Audible本中文書介出自《無事的守護神》博識圖書出版有限公司出版A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST"Brilliant, honest, and equal parts heartbreaking and soul-healing." --Laurie Halse Anderson, author of SHOUT"A singular voice in the world of literature." --Jason Reynolds, author of Long Way DownA 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.Jay 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.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Randy Ribay was born in the Philippines and raised in the Midwest. He is the author of After the Shot Drops and An Infinite Number of Parallel Universes. He earned his BA in English Literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder and his Master's Degree in Language and Literacy from Harvard Graduate School of Education. He currently teaches English and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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最佳賣點 : When 17-year-old Jay Reguero learns his Filipino cousin and former best friend, Jun, was murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, he flies to the Philippines to learn more in this gripping page-turning portrayal of the struggle to reconcile faith, family, and immigrant identity.