
The Foley Artist: Stories is the much-awaited debut by Ricco Villanueva Siasoco—an incisive, probing work for fans and readers of the Filipino America brought vividly to life in the fiction of Elaine Castillo and Mia Alvar.
At once deliciously bizarre and painfully familiar, The Foley Artist opens new regions of American feeling and thought as it interrogates intimacy, foreignness, missed connections, and silence in an absurd world. Here, these nine stories deftly give voice to the intersectional identities of women and men in the Filipino diaspora and queer community in America, from Des Moines, Iowa, to Boston, Massachusetts.
A straight woman attends her ex-boyfriend’s same-sex marriage in coastal Maine; a gay, college-bound teenager encounters his deaf uncle in Manila; Asian American drag queens duke it out in the annual Iowa State Fair; a seventy-nine-year-old foley artist attempts to recreate the sounds of life.
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