9 Books About Filipino Fathers from Electric Lit

I am married to a Filipino American. So, reading books written by or about Filipinos or Filipino Americans ia appealing to me. 

I recently came across an article published on Electric Lit's website titled, 9 Books About Filipino Fathers by Monica Macansantos. In the article, Monica Macansantos wrote the following:

While writing my memoir-in-essays, Returning to My Father’s Kitchen, I sometimes found myself pondering over how fathers are depicted in Filipino books and movies. A harsh, distant, unforgiving father came to mind when I thought of the archetypal Filipino padre de pamilya. This didn’t quite align with my own father’s approach to fatherhood: my father was warm, nurturing, and unguarded, a far cry from the authoritarian figures I’d come to know from Filipino movies and TV shows...

It was when I began to think back on the books I had read featuring Filipino fathers that I saw how varied and complex their depictions are in literature. While conforming to Philippine society’s expectations of manhood and fatherhood, they also question and even subvert these expectations with their individual actions. Below are nine books that shed light on Filipino fatherhood, presenting us with complex and layered characters whose struggles invite us to perform a closer examination of Filipino masculinity.

Click on above link to see which books made the list!