Status Updates From Patron Saints of Nothing

once again very ya and heavy handed conversations. i do think it’s an interesting perspective to bring up that jay in this case is “a colonizer” coming into the philippines with his western perspective and trying to apply it to the political world of the philippines. the random love story thread is kinda irritating

so it’s kinda obvious that certain characters exist to push the plot along in a pretty heavy handed manner, that mainly being mia who can both speak tagalog and also just have investigative journalism knowledge. but also it’s a ya novel so i get the heavy handedness. my only other comment is that it’s so frustrating that grace and jay don’t talk about jun like it’s right there !!!