Her Wild American Self

Filipina American debut author displays the contradictions of Asian American experience with irony & enthusiasm, anger & wit.

The stories in Her Wild American Self focus on Filipina Americans—recent immigrants or first generation—and explore what it is to be American and female. Each character struggles with careers, motherhood, sisterhood, and roles within family and society, including the stereotype of the subservient Asian American woman. Neither fully accepting nor rejecting their Easter...