Diosdado Galan GicaFiction about family, memory, migration, and the places we call home. Diosdado Galan Gica is a Filipino American writer whose fiction explores the stories families inherit, the places they leave behind, and the complicated meaning of home. Explore Now Current Work Labor Day at Pleasure Dome — a novel about memory, desire, chosen family, and the tribe one finds—and loses—in San Francisco's Castro.The Balikbayans — a multigenerational novel of family, migration, inheritance, and belonging, spanning Cebu in the Philippines and America.Explore the Writing →