Patron Saints of Nothing PH23-4

Patron Saints of Nothing PH23-4A 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. 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. 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

and I was like

Thus begins Elves

A quarantine is established

Making things even more complicated

when she played with and protected her daughter

telling lies at every turn to both fellow boarders and faculty

but you may prefer to do some other solemn and sacred thing

she has dreamed of fleeing to a place where they might be safe

But the true saga of her life has never been fully told

plus a water gun

Orpen’s life has revolved around training to fight a threat she’s never seen

an "Army brat" turned military wife and the mother of four officers-one each in the Army