Tio Doroy's Field

"If my father had not had eight mouths to feed, he would have been a successful starving artist...but he became a Public School teacher instead and no one starved." So writes the author of this compelling and reflective narrative about a family who's true story takes the reader to exotic places -- from the land of the geckos, Mt. Matutum and Sarangani Bay to the shores of America. This is a journey that traverses her father's escape from death during World War II and the dark secrets of her mother's past on the hills of Ingas. Follow her father's twenty-year pursuit of a college degree starting from the thatched nipa huts of the Phlippine Public Scools in the 1920s to the storied halls of America's Ivy League Schools where the elusive dream to become an engineer is fulfilled at last.