The Man in the McIntosh Suit (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781770466661)

A Filipino-American take on Depression-era noir featuring mistaken identities, speakeasies, and lost love.

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.

Rina Ayuyang indulges her passion for old Hollywood and elaborate movie musicals while exploring her immigrant roots in a playful and mysterious drama, creating something she never saw but always had hoped for--a classic tale about people who looked just like her. The Man in the McIntosh Suit is a gripping, romantic, and psychological exploration of a fledgling community chasing the American dream in an unwelcoming society heightened by racial hostility and the bubbling undercurrent of the coming Great Depression.

Author: Rina Ayuyang
ISBN-10: 1770466665
ISBN-13: 9781770466661
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
Language: English
Published: 05/02/2023
Pages: 212
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.20h x 6.10w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/08/2023
Booklist 05/15/2023 pg. 37
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2023
Library Journal 06/01/2023 pg. 104