![]() ![]() While there, he had an unplanned sexual encounter with an old flame. ![]() Nineteen years earlier, Johnny made his only return trip to the Philippines to visit his family. As the novel begins, the family is mired in a stasis that has crept uninvited into its home through the dynamics of time, illness, aging and lack of attention.Īlso uninvited, a young man named Winston comes into their home because he believes he might be Johnny de la Cruz’s unacknowledged-and perhaps, unknown-son. The slice-of-life scenes in Donna Miscolta’s tightly written “When the de la Cruz Family Danced” create an elegant portrait of a Southern California family suspended between its first and second generation Filipino origins, its “Little Manila” neighborhood and the outside world, and between familial cohesiveness and individual freedom. When the de la Cruz Family Danced by Donna Miscolta ![]()
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