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Dark Blue Suit: And Other Stories
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Dark Blue Suit: And Other Stories Paperback - 1997

by Peter Bacho

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Twelve powerful stories by award-winning novelist Peter Bacho. Set in Seattle from the 1950s to the present, "Dark Blue Suit" depicts the lives of two groups: Filipino immigrant pioneers and their American-born children. Although narrated as fiction, the stories--their landmarks, activities, settings, and events--are grounded in historical fact.

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The book opens with the annual spring dispatch, by the Seattle-based Filipino union, of thousands of Filipino workers to the Alaska salmon canneries. We meet characters who reappear throughout the stories: Vince, the tough but charming union foreman and "big shot" father to Buddy, our American-born narrator; Chris, the battle-scarred union president targeted by McCarthyism; Rico, the spirited young king of the neighborhood who will fall victim to Vietnam; Stephanie, the beautiful mestiza who marrie up; and many others who age and change in ironic counterpint to persistent themes of loyalty, fierce ethnic pride, and a willingness to struggle against hostile forces in society. There are wry twists of humor and surprising turns of plot; a long-lost love is renewed; a long-hidden family secret is revealed.

We encounter the inevitable aging and passing of the Manong generation, but we sense as well the arrival of its vision. Babies are born. The migrant fisheries worker gets a nine-to-five job, and his children go to college. The conclusion builds to a quiet power that is essentially elegiac; an era closes, but the voices of the older generation are shouldered by the younger, to keep the history to retell the stories, and to pay homage.

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  • Title Dark Blue Suit: And Other Stories
  • Author Peter Bacho
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Washington Press, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1997-10
  • ISBN 9780295976372 / 0295976373
  • Weight 0.43 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.46 x 5.6 x 0.39 in (21.49 x 14.22 x 0.99 cm)
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Filipino Americans, Filipino Americans - Fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 97-24806
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Kirkus Reviews, 08/15/1997, Page 1236
  • Library Journal, 10/01/1997, Page 128
  • New York Times, 10/26/1997, Page 40
  • Publishers Weekly, 09/08/1997, Page 60
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