“Narrator Ramón de Ocampo expresses the many emotional shifts of Jay Reguero…De Ocampo enacts the gripping tension of President Duterte’s power, Jun’s father’s support of the regime, and family schisms. As gripping as it is lyrical, Patron Saints of Nothing is a page-turning portrayal of the struggle to reconcile faith, family, and immigrant identity.

Hoping to uncover more about Jun and the events that led to his death, Jay is forced to reckon with the many sides of his cousin before he can face the whole horrible truth - and the part he played in it. He's the author of An Infinite Number of Parallel Universes, After the Shot Drops, and Patron Saints of Nothing, a powerful coming-of-age story about grief, guilt, and the risks a Filipino-American teenager takes to uncover the truth about his cousin's murder. But when he discovers that his Filipino cousin Jun was murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, and no one in the family wants to talk about what happened, Jay travels to the Philippines to find out the real story. Randy Ribay was born in the Philippines and raised in the Midwest. Jay Reguero plans to spend the last semester of his senior year playing video games before heading to the University of Michigan in the fall.

A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST 'Brilliant, honest, and equal parts heartbreaking and soul-healing.' -Laurie Halse Anderson, author of SHOUT 'A singular voice in the world of literature.' -Jason Reynolds, author of Long Way Down A powerful coming-of-age story about grief, guilt, and the risks a Filipino-American teenager takes to uncover the truth about his cousin's murder.

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