"I was someone hungry for stories; more specifically, I was someone who craved after facts. I was, you see, a person with no history. Lacking ...
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Oct 02, 2010
Fral
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Apr 25, 2010
Arlie
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I really enjoyed Chai's first book 'The Last Time I Saw Mother', so I was pleased to find a copy of her second book. Although there are some similarities between the two - first person female narrator, complex family dynamics and a past full of secrets - the story is also political. Set on an island in the South Pacific, Chai is very deliberate in never giving the actual name of the country or the dictator (whom she calls El Presidente). It's a very interesting choice, but for those who are fami
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Dec 05, 2010
Nina
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Set against the backdrop of an emerging rebellion, a struggling young reporter rushes to a fire in a small street in the city to write about what happened. Little did she know that the circumstances of her birth are intertwined with the story she would be writing.
So goes the story of Clara Perez. Written in the first person, this book tells stories within a story. I would like to remark again on the author's brilliant recollection of historical events that was the background of th More...
Jun 29, 2009
Katashiro
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this is a really moving book... i can't imagine living in such times...i hope i wont experience those tragedies...it almost made me cry,...but the way things are right now here, i guess events like those narrated in this book can happen...
Jun 21, 2010
Rowena
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The use of the Marcos era as a backdrop was interesting but there were just too many stories in this book that didn't seem to connect.
Mar 01, 2010
Jen
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I liked this book--didn't quite make 4 stars. Some scenes were very shocking, but I enjoyed the book overall. Very slow to begin with, though, with a lot of seemingly superfluous characters. However, they all come together nicely. It was a fictional respresentation of what life in the Phillipines were like in the 1970s and 1980s...
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