25/04/2026
"Too often, we equate the concept of home with something organic, stable, and static. When we think of home, we tend to think of hometowns, of momโs cooking, of family and friends, all tied to one place. We think of that one placeโ usually where we have lived for a number of yearsโas our home. Certainly, the Philippines is one such home. But come to think of it, for many of us Filipinos, home is transient and migratory.
For Filipino Americans like me, the thought of country is not so much a โhomeโ as it is a threshold to cross or a border to define. โHomeโ is not a countryโit is what you are emphatically, emotionally, and philosophically tied to. I had never articulated it to myself before, but I later realized that I am part of the Philippine diaspora."
๐๐ช๐จ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐บ ๐๐ฐ๐ต๐ฆ๐ด, an essay collection by Angela Fabunan Flores, published under Vibal Foundationโs World Non-fictions imprint. Flores, poet and author of ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ข ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐๐ฆ๐ค๐ฌ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฅ and ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐จ ๐๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐๐ญ๐ข๐บ, maps out all the places she has called home in this debut book, forming a sweeping tale of love, family, and the perseverance to keep putting one foot in front of the other, even in difficult times. Like a migratory bird tethered to a multitude of places and always in continuous transition between them, she gives full rein to her nature, flitting between the modes of unbelonging and affectation.
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