Immigration Blues | You Lonely People: Exiles in the Stories of Bienvenido N. Santos
In the following essay, Tan discusses the stories in Santos’s Scent of Apples and their common theme of expatriation and its effects.
Scent of Apples: A Collection of Stories (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1979, 178 pages) is Bienvenido N. Santos’s first book to be published in the United States, but fifteen of the sixteen stories in this collection have appeared before in two books published in the Philippines: eleven in You Lovely People (Bookmark, 1955) and four in The Day the Dancers Came (Bookmark, 1967). Thus, all the stories in this new collection are familiar to Filipino readers except the first one, ‘‘Immigration Blues,’’ whose significance in the book,...
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