An Evening with Randy Ribay

Wauwatosa Public Library, the Filipino American National Historical Society – Wisconsin, and Boswell Book Company presents an evening with award-winning author Randy Ribay, appearing for his latest YA novel, Everything We Never Had, an emotionally charged, moving novel about four generations of Filipino American boys grappling with identity, masculinity, and their fraught father-son relationships.

From the starred Booklist review: “Entwined and exquisite like a taut braid, the narrative expertly weaves the lives of these fathers and sons into a powerful family drama centered on one family's Filipino American experience…Whether depicting the anomie of the recent pandemic, the activism-charged atmosphere of the 1960s, or the tough lives of farm laborers enduring exploitation for a dream of prosperity, Ribay vividly and honestly brings these settings to life so the reader can better understand how the characters' worlds shape them.”

This event will be at the Wauwatosa Civic Center, attached to the library. Admission is free for this program, but registration is requested. Books will be available for sale at this event from Boswell. Ribay will sign books brought from home. Signing restrictions may apply.

Randy Ribay is a Filipino American author of young adult fiction. His novel Patron Saints of Nothing was a finalist for the National Book Award and the LA Times Book Prize. Randy was also a contributor to the Printz Award-winning anthology The Collectors, edited by A. S. King. His other works include An Infinite Number of Parallel Universes, After the Shot Drops, and Chronicles of the Avatar: The Reckoning of Roku.