โ Kellum Jeffries
๐ Fiction
๐
2019
๐ Painted Hearts Publishing
๐ English
โ 182 KB
โฆ LIBER โฆ
In the Country
โ Scribed by Mia Alvar
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 259 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
These nine globe-trotting, unforgettable stories from Mia Alvar, a remarkable new literary talent, vividly give voice to the women and men of the Filipino diaspora. Here are exiles, emigrants, and wanderers uprooting their families from the Philippines to begin new lives in the Middle East, the United States, and elsewhere--and, sometimes, turning back again.
A pharmacist living in New York smuggles drugs to his ailing father in Manila, only to discover alarming truths about his family and his past. In Bahrain, a Filipina teacher drawn to a special pupil finds, to her surprise, that she is questioning her own marriage. A college student leans on her brother, a laborer in Saudi Arabia, to support her writing ambitions, without realizing that his is the life truly made for fiction. And in the title story, a journalist and a nurse face an unspeakable trauma amidst the political turmoil of the Philippines in the 1970s and '80s.
In the Country speaks to the...
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