Balikbayan: A Filipino Homecoming

Balikbayan: A Filipino Homecoming, originally published in 1986, features eleven short stories that evoke the sights, sounds, and ironies of the contemporary Philippines and provides a creative and enlightening look into the lives and moods of everyday Filipino life. "Faith Healer," from Balikbayan, was selected for the PEN Syndicated Fiction Project. _____ Author Michelle Cruz Skinner is also the author of short story collections In the Company of Strangers as well as the novel Mango Seasons, nominated for the 1996 Philippine National Book Award. She is a teacher at Punahou School where, yes, she does ask her students to write and perform their own work. _____ paperback   |   104 pages   |   5.5" x 8.75"   |   B&W   REVIEWS: “Michelle Cruz Skinner, only 22, is wiser than most who have lived much longer. She understands the ways of humankind. Her stories are written with such simplicity that the truth they convey shines with urgency the proper reader cannot miss. Even the very shor