A powerful coming-of-age story about grief, guilt, and the risks a Filipino-American teenager takes to uncover the truth about his cousin\'s murder.
He currently teaches English and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area..
He earned his BA in English Literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder and his Master\'s Degree in Language and Literacy from Harvard Graduate School of Education.
He is the author of After the Shot Drops and An Infinite Number of Parallel Universes.
About the Author: Randy Ribay was born in the Philippines and raised in the Midwest.
When 17-year-old Jay Reguero learns his Filipino cousin and former best friend, Jun, was murdered as part of President Duterte\'s war on drugs, he flies to the Philippines to learn more in this gripping page-turning portrayal of the struggle to reconcile faith, family, and immigrant identity.
As gripping as it is lyrical, Patron Saints of Nothing is a page-turning portrayal of the struggle to reconcile faith, family, and immigrant identity.
Hoping to uncover more about Jun and the events that led to his death, Jay is forced to reckon with the many sides of his cousin before he can face the whole horrible truth -- and the part he played in it.
But when he discovers that his Filipino cousin Jun was murdered as part of President Duterte\'s war on drugs, and no one in the family wants to talk about what happened, Jay travels to the Philippines to find out the real story.
Jay Reguero plans to spend the last semester of his senior year playing video games before heading to the University of Michigan in the fall.
A powerful coming-of-age story about grief, guilt, and the risks a Filipino-American teenager takes to uncover the truth about his cousin\'s murder
