Description Followers of the Seasons is a collection of the life\'s work of renown Pilipino American writer Oscar Peñaranda.
Table of Contents Foreward by Tony Robles Introduction by Aileen Cassinetto AcknowledgementsKey: SF (Short or Sudden Fiction), SS (Short Story), E (Essay), M (Memoir), P (Poem) SUITE #1: The Bridge SUITE #2: The Voyage SUITE #3: The City SUITE #4: The Salmon SUITE #5: The Cure Epilogue About the Author Oscar Peñaranda is an educator, writer, and culture-bearer for and from both shores of the Pacific and is a recipient of the prestigious Gawad Alagad ni Balagtas for lifetime achievement for his writings and endeavors; and the 2023 City of San Francisco Trailblazers A.
Gonzales, Professor of Asian American Studies Emeritus, SF State.
Read on - you\'ll see and enjoy! -Daniel P.
His writings present the truest of truths, envisioned through a lens molded from an amalgam of knowledge of literature in English, Filipino, Cebuano, and Waray and polished with the fine-grains of decades of personal adventures and experience as an educator and mentor.
Oscar Peñaranda is such a person - truly and deeply bicultural - all and at once Filipino and American.
There are extremely few people in the world who think and move with equal levels of sensibilty, grace, intellectual agility, and accuracy in two distinct and often conflicting cultures. -Tina Bobadilla- Mastel, Master Teacher, mentor, educator all her adult life to several generations of students and citizens, James Logan High School, Union City.
A bridge, a toilet, a flag, a burning pot of lumpia - familiar objects, when handled by Peñaranda\'s deft storytelling, conjure feelings of loss, heartbreak, the search for our roots, our selves, and for home.
In Followers of the Seasons, he gathers seemingly disparate events and images from his life, ancestral memory, and universal experience, sprinkled among multiple genres, slowly order and assemble themselves in the reader\'s consciousness, ultimately yielding larger truths.
Praise for Followers of the Seasons Oscar Peñaranda claims everything is inspired by a true story.
The work takes us from locations in various aspects of the writers life: the Philippines, student cultural and political activism at SF State campuses, work as an Alaskero in the canneries, to San Francisco\'s Manilatown.
It is divided into five suites that cover topics of history, struggle, family, friendship and concerns for humanity.
Description Followers of the Seasons is a collection of the life\'s work of renown Pilipino American writer Oscar Peñaranda
