Presenter of
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Randy Ribay is an award-winning author of young adult fiction. His most recent novel, Patron Saints of Nothing, earned five starred reviews, was selected as a Freeman Book Award winner, and was a Finalist for the National Book Award, The Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Walden Book Award, Edgar Award, International Thriller Writers Award, and the CILIP Carnegie Medal. More about this author >
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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. 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.
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.
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.
The mysterious death of a cousin beckons us to the hot, humid streets and countryside of the Philippines, where the country is politically divided by President Duterte's controversial war on drugs. In Patron Saints of Nothing, Randy Ribay’s intense, poignant story explores questions of identity, homeland, family, and the complexity of truth. Ribay splits your heart in shock and grief, but he also heals it, and we are enriched for having traveled with him on the journey.
