The Oracles - Navalta, Pati
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As a young girl growing up in California, Pati Navalta was amazed and dismayed to watch her Grandma Fausta washing clothes by hand when there was a perfectly good washer and dryer in the house! Only years later did she begin to understand how much she had needed this native Filipina to bring her own heritage to her door. After Fausta came to California to help care for Pati and her brother, three more grandparents arrived, one by one. She came to think of them as "the Oracles" because of the mysterious, sometimes stifling, but ultimately important traditions they brought with them. The Oracles…mehr

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As a young girl growing up in California, Pati Navalta was amazed and dismayed to watch her Grandma Fausta washing clothes by hand when there was a perfectly good washer and dryer in the house! Only years later did she begin to understand how much she had needed this native Filipina to bring her own heritage to her door. After Fausta came to California to help care for Pati and her brother, three more grandparents arrived, one by one. She came to think of them as "the Oracles" because of the mysterious, sometimes stifling, but ultimately important traditions they brought with them. The Oracles is the vivid memoir of a gifted young writer who, like so many others, has struggled with the traditional values of a culture she has never known. In sharp and unforgettable glimpses we see the shadows of superstition, the force of religion, and the embrace of family-sometimes welcome, sometimes not. Navalta presents an altogether honest and engaging portrait of generational strife and the clash of values in a Filipino American household that seeks to maintain its ties to family and homeland.
Autorenporträt
Pati Navalta is the author of two books, and is a longtime San Francisco Bay Area journalist and media and communications strategist, previously serving as Editorial Writer and Columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, where she was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for an editorial series on the need for foster care reform in California. The series led to landmark changes in foster care in the state, improving the lives of millions of foster youth. In her second memoir, A Better Place, Pati shares the story of her painful but hopeful journey toward healing from the loss of her son, Robby, by gun violence in 2014. To honor Robby, Pati founded The Robby Poblete Foundation in 2017 to get unwanted weapons out of circulation, and through arts and training programs, turn them into objects of hope and opportunity. Pati is currently the Founder and President of Navalta Media. Please visit navaltamedia.com for more.