May is Asian-American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month. This weekend, Memorial Day Weekend, is the unofficial start of summer. With summer, comes going to the beach, hanging by the pool and lounging on your backyard hammock, if you have one. Like many, when I do any of those things, I like to have a good book with me.
Why not celebrate AAPI Month and Memorial Day with my novel, Back Kicks And Broken Promises, by winning a FREE copy for your Nook or Kindle. The first five people who comment on this post or email me on Monday, 28th May, 2012, will win an ebook of my novel. Make sure you provide an email address where I can gift you the ebook.
Here's what's on the back flap of the print editions and below are some links that will, hopefully, get you excited to read it.
Synopsis:
Ricky Gilbert’s world has been turned upside down. The seventeen-year-old, Filipino, adopted son of American parents, Ricky tries to adjust to a new life after moving halfway around the world from Singapore to New Jersey. With the help of Max Parada, an American-born Filipino, and Amy Cho, his Korean-American classmate, Ricky begins to find his place and identity in his new home through Taekwondo training.
The training, however, is more than kicks and punches. Instead, it becomes Ricky’s guide to life as he progresses from one belt to another. Even so, just as he begins to adjust to his new environment, Ricky’s world takes another hit when he discovers a secret that forces him to question who he is and what family means to him. Coming to terms with this—and with the large sum of money suddenly in his possession—Ricky has to decide whether he’s going to stay with the family he’s known all his life or leave and become a family of one.
As he tries to sort out his life, traveling to the Philippines and back to Singapore, Ricky discovers things about his father that make the two of them more alike than he’d ever thought - or even hoped - possible.
The training, however, is more than kicks and punches. Instead, it becomes Ricky’s guide to life as he progresses from one belt to another. Even so, just as he begins to adjust to his new environment, Ricky’s world takes another hit when he discovers a secret that forces him to question who he is and what family means to him. Coming to terms with this—and with the large sum of money suddenly in his possession—Ricky has to decide whether he’s going to stay with the family he’s known all his life or leave and become a family of one.
As he tries to sort out his life, traveling to the Philippines and back to Singapore, Ricky discovers things about his father that make the two of them more alike than he’d ever thought - or even hoped - possible.
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