TY  - BOOK
AU  - Poblete,Pati Navalta
TI  - The oracles: my Filipino grandparents in America
SN  - 1597140368 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - E 184 .P739 2006
U1  - FIL 305.899210794 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Berkeley, Calif.
PB  - Heyday Books
KW  - Poblete, Pati Navalta
KW  - Filipino American families
KW  - California
KW  - San Francisco
KW  - Filipino Americans
KW  - Biography
KW  - Intergenerational relations
KW  - Grandparents
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Philippines
KW  - San Francisco (Calif.)
N1  - College Student; 1210L-1700L
N2  - As a young girl growing up in California, Pati Navalta Poblete is dismayed to find her American way of life interrupted when her four grandparents arrive from the Philippines. Turning her adolescence upside down, they inspire her to name them "the Oracles" for the unfamiliar--and often unsolicited--wisdom they bring. Poblete tells her story of generational strife and familial clash of values with tenderness and humor. In sharp and unforgettable glimpses we see the shadows of superstition, the force of religion, and the embrace of family--sometimes welcome, sometimes not. Only years later did she begin to understand how much she had needed the Oracles to bring her own.--From publisher description
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0613/2006013954.html
ER  -