Potato Queen - Softcover

Sy, Rafaelito V.

 
9781928662068: Potato Queen
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1928662064 ISBN 13: 9781928662068
Verlag: Palari Pub, 2004

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Rafaelito V. Sy was born and raised in Manila, Philippines. He has also lived in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Paris, Boston, and New York. He earned his B. A. in English from Tufts University and his M. F. A. in Creative Writing from Cornell University, where he taught the personal essay and creative writing. He currently resides in San Francisco. Potato Queen is his first published novel.

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Potato Queen starts off in Manila, Philippines, where a young Juancho Chu is living vicariously through reruns of US television sitcoms and dreaming of a life in the less oppressive land of America.As a young man, Juancho makes his way to San Francisco to establish a life for himself in the United States. While working at a travel agency ironically selling tours to exotic locales like the Philippines, Juancho works toward his US citizenship.It's not long before he begins making friends and discovering the gay nightlife that San Francisco has to offer. Along comes Gerald, a white man who is attracted to Asian men a rice queen. Juancho finds that he is usually attracted to white men, thus dubbed a potato queen. Juancho and Gerald seem to be perfect for each other, but complications along the way include a variety of very willing Asian men and a surprisingly down-to-earth white porn star.Will Juancho and Gerald remain just friends? Will Juancho secure the US citizenship he has always dreamed of? Will he actually meet the porn star he used to watch on the big screen in dark movie houses? Find out in Potato Queen.

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Verlag
Palari Pub
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1928662064
ISBN 13 
9781928662068
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Anzahl der Seiten
267
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