This extraordinary novel illustrates a family’s long journey toward making peace-with the world, with the family, and with individual selves. The novel explores the ties within family and how circumstances of birth, immigration, and assimilation tug at those ties. Miles away, nineteen-year-old Winston Piña has barely finished eulogizing his recently deceased mother Bunny, when he finds a letter she wrote, but never sent to Johnny de la Cruz, leading him into the lives of the de la Cruz family - a family to which he might or might not belong. Years later, sick with cancer and faced with the possibility of dying, he regrets that he never had a son-a lack that has distanced him from his daughters and sometimes his wife.
Johnny succumbs to a quick sexual encounter with the ever attractive and beguiling Bunny. This novel about a Filipino American family in Southern California was published by Signal 8 Press in 2011.ĭuring his one and only return visit to the Philippines, Johnny de la Cruz, plagued by a sense of isolation, feels a glimmer of connection to the place of his birth and youth when he sees Bunny Bulong, the hometown Miss Sampaguita of 1946.
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