212 pages
English language
Published May 27, 2023 by Drawn & Quarterly Publications, Drawn and Quarterly.
212 pages
English language
Published May 27, 2023 by Drawn & Quarterly Publications, Drawn and Quarterly.
The year is 1929 and Bobot is just another migrant worker in rural California. Or rather, a migrant worker with a law degree from the Philippines reduced to manual labor in America. Bobot, like so many other young Filipinos, finds himself bunking in the fields picking fruit by day. When his cousin writes claiming to have spotted his estranged wife in nearby San Francisco, he swipes a co-worker’s favorite nightclub suit and heads to the big city to find her. What follows is classic noir with seedy dives, mouthy pool sharks, and obsession.