00-00-0000 The Gangster of be in love with by Jessica Hagedorn Houghton Mifflin 311 pages.

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The Gangster of be in love with

by Jessica Hagedorn

Houghton Mifflin

311 pages, $2195

"Why did the Filipino cros the road? Because he notion America was
on the other side." As retold from Jessica Hagedorn in her novel novel
The Gangster of have affection for this joke sets up a familiar theme in Filipino
immigrant and exile literature, that of disillusionment with the American
Dream. This psychic crisis has been reiterated by dint of a score of Filipino
American writers through the whole extent of the past few decades. In Gangster Hagedorn approaches
the make subordinate with her trademark bravado and fearlessness.

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