Reminiscence - Arranguez Jr., J. R.
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Reminiscence is a historical/multicultural novel inspired by actual events and based on the true story of a Filipina nurse who lost her father in the Vietnam War before she was born. While growing up, she dreams of meeting her father and becoming a nurse someday so she could come to America and live there with her mother for good. In her adolescence, she stops dreaming of finding her father. She becomes a nurse and comes to America and works in a nursing home in Raleigh where she meets and gets romantically involved with the grandson of a resident. Their romance unexpectedly leads the way to…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Reminiscence is a historical/multicultural novel inspired by actual events and based on the true story of a Filipina nurse who lost her father in the Vietnam War before she was born. While growing up, she dreams of meeting her father and becoming a nurse someday so she could come to America and live there with her mother for good. In her adolescence, she stops dreaming of finding her father. She becomes a nurse and comes to America and works in a nursing home in Raleigh where she meets and gets romantically involved with the grandson of a resident. Their romance unexpectedly leads the way to her finding her father, alive and well, and living in a suburb close to the nursing home with another family.
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Autorenporträt
J. R. Arranguez Jr. comes from the Philippines. He earned a bachelor's degree in English from the University of the Visayas in the city of Cebu. After graduation, he worked as a media production specialist in the Department of Agriculture Central Visayas Region and worked as chief editor for its in-house publications. He published news and feature stories in local and national magazines, wrote scripts related to agriculture, and produced documentary films for public consumption. The tenth in the brood of twelve, 'Jun, ' or 'Dodong' to his family or friends, is a native of Daanbantayan, the northernmost town in the province of Cebu. In 1994, he migrated to the USA and settled with his family in the town of Holly Springs, North Carolina. Jun worked as an information-processing technician in NCDOR, Raleigh, until October 2014, when he was subjected to harassment and discrimination. He quit his state job and has been into writing fiction since then. He had previously published The Boy Who Hated Numbers, a children's book, and is presently working on another one for the kids.