![]() ![]() If you got a private education in this country, Bulosan was, is, required reading. Carlos Bulosan was a Filipino-American writer and activist, and “America Is in the Heart,” his second novel, is considered the pioneering work of literature from the Philippine diaspora. I first read Bulosan in my freshman year in college. When I heard that publishing house Penguin was releasing their own edition of Carlos Bulosan’s “America Is in the Heart,” I felt proud, excited, and something else. ![]() So far, there have only been scattered showers. We’ll worry that our lights will go out, that our water will stop running. If our homes are safe, we’ll think of those whose homes aren’t, wonder whether any coastal villages or informal settlements are flooding, or being swept away. Then it becomes all we can think about, all we can hear, as it pours down relentless on clay tiles, corrugated metal, nipa grass. ![]() We have so much rain in this country that we give them different names, know their characteristics, distinct like personalities.įilipinos don’t think about the weather much. Habagat was unseasonably early - it usually arrives in June. The air is thick and still, but clouds are threatening a downpour. Manila (CNN Philippines Life) - It’s the end of May. ![]()
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