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A powerful novel about ethnically fluid California, and the corrosive relationship between two Filipino brothers. Told with a hard-edged purity that brings to mind Cormac McCarthy and Denis Johnson, American Son is the story of two Filipino brothers adrift in contemporary California. The... read more

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Tomas is the son who helps pay the mortgage by selling attack dogs to rich people and celebrities.

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  1. Brian Ascalon Roley (Author)

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