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Jill’s 2025 Year in Books
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Jill Damatac
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Born
Philippines
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January 2025
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Dirty Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family
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2025
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6 editions
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Dirty Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family
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| Alejandra's book is both a work of memoir and of journalism. Working as a translator and interpreter for refugees and immigrants seeking to enter the US, she reveals the deeper humanity that lives underneath the skin of untranslatability, where a lac ...more | |
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| Kaila's memoir is a challenging and difficult read, but a necessary one. Reading her journey, and the ways in which internalized sexism and racism can collide with the world's general racism and sexism, was both harrowing and deeply enlightening, as ...more | |
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| Aside from learning so much about the history of indigenous people on this land now called the United States, what kept me going the most in Joseph's book was our shared complicated relationship to identity. Joseph is Aquinnah Wampanoag and Chinese A ...more | |
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| Aside from learning so much about the history of indigenous people on this land now called the United States, what kept me going the most in Joseph's book was our shared complicated relationship to identity. Joseph is Aquinnah Wampanoag and Chinese A ...more | |
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| I can't believe it's taken me THIS long to write this review. I read Qian Julie's memoir the day it published, and finished it in 4 hours. It is a lyrical, beautiful account of a childhood lived in both hope and longing--for home, for sustenance, for ...more | |
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Jill Damatac
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Cinderella's review
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Dirty Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family:
"In a Filipino household, there is a main kitchen and a dirty kitchen. The main kitchen is nicer, typically used for hosting, and is like any other kitchen in an average house. The dirty kitchen meanwhile is a second or adjoining kitchen. It’s hidden "
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"Presents as an immigrant" - that is quite the false and defamatory charge, there. I find it fascinating to learn of these linguistic specificities, w
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Jill Damatac
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Axelle's review
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Dirty Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family:
"I am not sure who started following who (and I still don’t know why I deserve the follow back lol), but I remember seeing Ate Jill on my Instagram shortly after I moved to the US for college in 2021. Throughout the next 4 years her posts online were "
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"i will read everything single memoir about food and identity… this was literally published yesterday but already on my want to read"
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