My Fair Maladies: Funny Essays and Poems on Various Ailments and Afflictions

by Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo (Editor), Paolo Manalo (Contributor)

Almost everyone has suffered, at one time or the other, from some ailment, real or imagined. In true Pinoy fashion, we all cope by laughing about it, proving that laughter, indeed, is the best medicine. The 64 funny essays and poems in this book are all about the maladies that have afflicted some of the best writers in the country today - from a wandering eye to the big C, from an irrational fear of insects to a full-blown nervous breakdown. They are interspersed with nuggets of information on the illnesses.

Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry

215 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Cristina has been writing for Philippine newspapers at the young age of fifteen and is now an award-winning author.

Reviews

[Claudette]

Needless to say, I'm a huge fan of Pantoja-Hidalgo.

[Luigi]

A friend was generous enough to give me a copy and I must say that the essays were wonderful and most of them are funny.