The Gangster of Love - Jessica Hagedorn

Category: Historical Fiction, Literature, Novel
Language: English
Keywords: Coming of Age family saga Filipino

Written by Jessica Hagedorn
Read by Ramon De Ocampo, Rona Figueroa, Jessica Hagedorn
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

From celebrated novelist Jessica Hagedorn, an electrifying novel about a Filipino American family navigating a culture of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll.

Rocky Rivera arrives in the US from the Philippines the year that Jimi Hendrix dies. So begins a blazing coming-of-age story suffused with the tensions of immigration that finds Rocky moving from the counterculture of 1960s San Francisco to the extravagant 1980s Manhattan music scene.

The Gangster of Love tells the story of the Rivera family as they make their new life in the States, all the while haunted by the memory of the father and the homeland they left behind. Among its members are Rocky’s haughty mother, who has impulsively left her father; Voltaire, her brother, prone to heavy depression and odd friendships with strangers; and Rocky herself, unsure about sex and worshipful of her boyfriend, the guitar-playing Elvis Chang, who must learn to accept reality amid the myths and lures of American success and idolatry.

Audio Release Date:
August 15 2023

11 hrs and 37 mins