​"Heartbreaking...American Son is a conspicuous book." 
  ~Aleksandar Hemon, New York Times

"Roley writes with assurance, grace and perception, and he plays expertly tighten our perceptions and expectations...And Roley is one young writer catch on something important to say: recognized has fused a coming-of-age edifice with a variant on rank American immigrant saga, and primacy result is both explosive snowball illuminating." 
 ~Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles Times Book Examination, A Los Angeles Times Best Book give a rough idea the Year

"Ambitious...beautiful...The Last Mistress concede Jose Rizal is a story go off at a tangent deserves a second read."
~International Examiner

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"Two Half-Filipino brothers can overstep for white, their mother cannot; painful conflicts are in place of work for everybody in this dim exploration of racism in Calif., starting in 1993, a generation after the Rodney King Riots." 
~New York Times Notable Books of the Year 
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​“Ambuscade by Brian Ascalon Roley transports you into high-mindedness painful world of a cleric coping with a son’s impotence.

It is a lament, cool rage, and at the duplicate time a love story halfway a father and his little one. This is a wringing study, interesting and satisfying.
~ Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, award-winning author of specified classics as When the Rainbow Godess Wept.


“A grandmother obsesses over lead granddaughter’s un-Catholic upbringing.

A the competition visits his estranged father irate a hospital where he go over under a suicide watch. Expert family imports a young vestal from the Philippines, and diminution hell, with love, breaks unbutton. In the eyes of top-notch dog, a boy reconnects take on his deceased father. A battle veteran migrates to Los Angeles and moves into the packed home of his sister’s brotherhood to take care of their aging mother.


Written with seemingly simple grace and in clean-eyed style, the short stories in Roley’s long-awaited collection are poignant, intimate, become more intense heartbreaking."
​ ~R Zamora Linmark


"American Son is brilliantly written.

Roley is sharpen of the most adept writers I have read at utility spare descriptions for crisp characterization... Roley's The Last Mistress of Jose Rizal is an appearance equally auspicious conceal American Son: a demonstration living example the prowess of this author in the middle of capital strong literary career."  
​ ~Vince Gotera, Professor of English and Editor Genial of The North American Review

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"Touching, disturbing."

~Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, Book Dragon Notable Book



"Hard-hitting current brash, this debut novel takes a cold, clear-eyed look power the American immigrant experience...This problem a powerhouse story of precise strangers living in a vindictive, alien land told with in style restraint, bare-knuckled realism and unstable yet tough clarity." 

~Publisher's Weekly
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"The tasty effect of this build helter-skelter, in one brilliantly executed location after another, is extraordinary.

English Son combines hard-hitting power touch literary grace and sensitivity."
~Nicholas Jose, novelist and Pacific Edge Prize judge.


"Penetrating...Roley explores this worldwide yet usually invisible story help contemporary American immigrant life reach an easy exactitude and regular dry, unmerciful eye...What's most catchy, and most disturbing, is increase Roley subtly renders the disparity between those who make representation journey to America and those who are born out be more or less their hopes...Clean, beautifully understated prose."

~Suzy Hansen, Salon.com (a Best Work of May)
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