'Raymundo Mata is a nightblind bookworm and a revolutionary in the Philippine war against Spain in 1896. Apostol pushes up against the limits of fiction in order to recover the atrocity in Balangiga, and in so doing, she shows us the dark heart of an untold and forgotten war that would shape the next century of Philippine and American history'- Provided by publisher. Insurrecto masterfully questions and twists narrative in the manner of Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Julio Cortazar's Hopscotch, and Nabokov's Pale Fire. Using interlocking voices and a kaleidoscopic structure, the novel is startlingly innovative, meditative, and playful. Within the spiraling voices and narrative layers of Insurrecto are stories of women-artists, lovers, revolutionaries, daughters-finding their way to their own truths and histories. Insurrecto contains within its dramatic action two rival scripts from the filmmaker and the translator-one about a white photographer, the other about a Filipino schoolteacher. Magsalin reads Chiara's film script and writes her own version. Chiara is working on a film about an incident in Balangiga, Samar, in 1901, when Filipino revolutionaries attacked an American garrison, and in retaliation American soldiers created 'a howling wilderness' of the surrounding countryside. Two women, a Filipino translator and an American filmmaker, go on a road trip in Duterte's Philippines, collaborating and clashing in the writing of a film script about a massacre during the Philippine-American War. 'Histories and personalities collide in this literary tour-de-force about the Philippines' present and America's past by the PEN Open Book Award-winning author of Gun Dealer's Daughter.

Exploring the universal experience of loss, displacement, and the longing to connect across borders both real and imagined, In the Country speaks to the heart of everyone who has ever searched for a place to call home'- Provided by publisher. The novella-length title story follows the unexpected fates of a journalist and a nurse during the 1970s labor strikes in Manila.

A college student in Manila struggling to write fiction knows that her brother, who has gone abroad to make money, is the one living a life that stories are made of.

A woman living in Bahrain faces a challenge that compels her to question her marriage. One man smuggles drugs from his pharmacy in New York to Manila for his ailing father, only to discover an alarming truth about his mother. Mia Alvar's stunning debut gives us a vivid, insightful picture of the Filipino diaspora: exiles and emigrants and wanderers uprooting their families to begin new lives in the Middle East and America-and, sometimes, turning back. 'A powerful, globe-trotting debut short-story collection from an exciting new writer-vivid, character-driven stories about Filipinos from every walk of life.

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