Love & Other Firsts

by Tilay Angbetic

Overview

It's summer 1975 and the Philippines is in the grip of martial law. Yet fourteen-year-old Ligaya has a more gripping concern: to persuade her snip-happy mother to lift her longstanding ban on long hair. Ligaya succeeds and enters her sophomore year with a new look and a new outlook. She sets out to become class president, top student, and a girl that for once, a boy would look at twice. As she steers through the ups and downs of her family's fortunes, the twists and turns of her first romance, and the loop-de-loops of her principal's brain, Ligaya learns that it will take more than her smarts and occasional dumb luck to prevail. LOVE & OTHER FIRSTS is a delightful and deeply affecting novel suffused with equal parts humor and pathos. It follows the year-long journey of firsts in the life of an idealistic young girl, set against the lush backdrop of the Philippines with its embrace of American pop culture, Roman Catholicism, Spanish customs, and Chinese cuisine.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781461119104
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	06/20/2011
Pages:	314
Product dimensions:	5.24(w) x 7.99(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

TILAY ANGBETIC was born and raised in Cebu, where she received her B.A. in Mass Communication from the University of the Philippines. After her year-long world tour with "Up With People," Tilay moved to New York City, where she studied the craft of writing. She now lives in San Diego, pursuing her passions for writing, travel, photography, and food.