The Oracles: My Filipino Grandparents in America

Pati Navalta Poblete

Jan 2006 · Heyday

About this ebook

? Story of a Filipino-American girlhood by a working journalist ? Joins our recent group of memoir-driven non-fiction books ? First-hand view of a culture that is not as familiar as many others but is just as traditional Summary This book richly portrays the clash of cultures and generations within an American household that brings grandparents from the ?old country? to help raise the children. Both sets of grandparents have a strong influence on the family and Pati Poblete over the years from childhood to young adult, and eventually to motherhood. The multi-generational story is one that could be that of any family of immigrants who are settled and try to integrate old and new lives. The author only comes to fully realize some truths that shaped this time when she travels to the Philippines for the funeral of one of the grandparents.