Leaving Yesler
A Fiction book. I so wanted to like this book. Non-macho Filipino youth, growing up in Seattle in the '60's. Father's a...
Fiction. Filipino American Studies. Latino/Latina Studies. African American Studies. Young Adult Fiction. LEAVING YESLER features a sensitive, mixed race (Puerto Rican and black) protagonist (Bobby). Bobby's life is difficult--in short order, he lost his mom to cancer and his older protective brother to Vietnam. His Filipino stepfather is old and not long for the world. The plot, which takes place in the politically tumultuous year of 1968, follows him from his last days in the Yesler Terrace housing project in Seattle to just short of his first day in college. Not only must he survive the dangers within the projects, he must also come to terms with questions about his ethnic identity and his sexuality. The novel is set within the literary realm of magical realism. The ghosts of Bobby's mother and older brother continuously reappear to comfort and advise him. It would best be classified as...
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- Pages: 285 pages
- ISBN: 9781929355570 / 0
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this book is really good it takes place in the late 60s and it tells you a story of how not to give up your dreams of becoming something in your life. this book is good for someone who like to read about boxing It is a SHAME that Peter Bacho's books aren't better known. Leaving Yessler is a coming-of-age story set in Seattle in the sixties about 18 yr old Benny lives with and cooks for his father--brain damaged by his career as a boxer--and lives with the ghosts of his mother and brother. He is trying to catch his balance between his father... I so wanted to like this book. Non-macho Filipino youth, growing up in Seattle in the '60's. Father's a boxer, dead brother was a bully. Started out well: boy wants to go to college and struggles to escape his humble origins. Some of the early scenes were persuasive and interesting.But what a mess it turned into! The occasional ghost...
