Everything you need to understand or teach Immigration Blues by Bienvenido Santos.
"Immigration Blues," by Filipino American writer Bienvenido Santos, won the award for fiction from New Letters in 1977 (an award that includes publication of the work as part of the prize) and is available in his short-story collection Scent of Apples (Seattle and London, 1979). Santos writes frequently of the Filipino experience in America, which is the subject of "Immigration Blues."
The story is a poignant study in the loneliness and sense of exile that...