 Hello, I'm Marianne Chan and I will be at the 2022 Filipino American International Book Festival reading from all heathens. This book is about my family and our immigration from the Philippines to the U.S. by way of Europe. And it's also about Ferdinand Magellan and the narrative of the first circumnavigation of the world. So, of course, Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who during the 1500s was trying to find a westward route to the Spice Islands on behalf of Spain. And his arrival in the Philippines marks the beginning of the history of Spain on the islands. And so, in this book, I wanted to explore that early history of colonization and think about the ways that history impacts Filipinos today.