TY - BOOK AU - Briscoe, Leonor Aureus, ed. AU - Merina, Anita, ed. TI - Philippine American short stories: a collection of prize-winning fiction in the PALM Council Philippine American short stories Contest 1989-1991 SN - 971-8967-16-8 AV - PL 5531.4 .P538 1997 CY - Quezon City PB - Giraffe Books. KW - Short stories, Philippine (English) KW - sears N2 - the hurt and the guilt of assimilation, and the clash of cultures, changing loyalties, turning away from the old values, dancing to a new beat, an explosion of new songs by fresh voices, undaunted by winds of change bearing the scents of strange fruits quite unlike the familiar scents of home; Contains a collection of stories by beginners, mostly Filipinos who went to America. Tells same themes, old but ever new, what price, leaving home and uprooting ER -