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Marivi Soliven talks to Alexander “The Engineer” Lim, host of AuthorStory by alvinwriter.comabout her book, The Mango Bride.



"Filipinos are a lot more than pansit, lumpia, and Manny Paquiao."~Marivi Soliven

Marivi was formerly an instructor of English at the University of the Philippines, and she moved to the United States in her thirties after she got married and as such her sense of identity as a Filipino was already fully-formed.

She remarked that she had to change her way of thinking when she got to the United States, since her first job as a caregiver and personal assistant to a disabled professor was disparate from her previous work as an educator and her later jobs as an interpreter and an advocate of anti-domestic violence.

Marivi was aware that becoming an immigrant is a long process, and she also mentioned that the sense of dislocation, of being removed from one’s roots, was part of her experience as an immigrant, and is most likely the same