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Serious, Realistic, non-sensationalized Fiction
Serious, Realistic, non-sensationalized Fiction
WARNING . . . These books are populated with romantic couples and friends of mixed race and ethnicity who struggle with the racism of their era. Such social heroism is a significant theme of their life stories. In the interest of accuracy, realism, and the goal of historically set fiction to give the reader a chance to feel as the historical people might have felt, these pages have rough, gut-wrenching, and uncomfortable moments and risks, and the language of the racial slurs and insults of the bigot and the misguided will be encountered by the adventurous reader. Some Filipino readers may be shocked, hurt, or feel insulted by the crude ways some Americans spoke of them and to them, especially those not deeply schooled in their homeland's history. But it is just history. If you want to know something of it . . your nation's contentious first meeting with America . . take a look into these books. If you want to sense how your ancestors felt when they faced the disrespect of the outsider, of the ruling colonial Spaniard and the invading newcomers from America, then bravely push on. Similarly, the American reader may want to face the facts of our ancestors' flaws. It is just history. If you are timid or squeamish about such realities of the past, do not visit it.
Adventurous, romantic, realistic fiction set in the Philippine Islands from shortly before the Filipinos' rebellion against their Spanish colonial masters to the independence of the archipelago in 1946 from their second rulers, the Americans. Filipino and American characters and stories that intertwine the two nations as they are in the real world . . .
. . . these are serious stories from the author of the historical series Sunny of the Old southwest that spans across America and to the Philippines and tells of a loving relationship between an American Indian and white Virginian.
Quality fiction is imagined reality.