MANHATTAN – More than 200 fans, friends and family came out to support an honorary kababayan, Rafe Bartholomew, on his book launch in Union Square, New York on Wednesday night.Bartholomew’s book “Pacific Rims” is about the Filipino’s unique version of basketball.
Fans lined up for almost 2 hours just to get his autograph.
“I’m absolutely, amazingly impressed, he’s become such a wonderful articulate young man, and he’s a wonderful writer,” said Vincent Sheeham, a family friend of the author.
Filipinos have praised Bartholomew’s book.
“I love the history. I love the humor into it,” said Marc Anthony Agbuya of Brooklyn, New York.
“When I found it in the bookstore nakita ko na parang Pilipino yung nandito, naka tsinelas, nung nakita [ko] yung Philippines, I have to buy this one,” said Wendell Quilang of Bayside, New York.
Bartholomew said the Philippines’ National Bookstore has ordered 1,500 more copies to be sold in the Philippines. Balitang America
By Don Tagala, ABS-CBN North America News Bureau
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