![]() I am a person who likes to dive deep instead of dabble. ![]() I usually prefer novels to story collections. Deeply compassionate and richly felt, In the Country marks the emergence of a formidable new writer. From teachers to housemaids, from mothers to sons, Alvar’s powerful debut collection explores the universal experiences 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. 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. 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. In Bahrain, a Filipina teacher drawn to a special pupil finds, to her surprise, that she is questioning her own marriage. ![]() 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.Ī pharmacist living in New York smuggles drugs to his ailing father in Manila, only to discover alarming truths about his family and his past. 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. ![]()
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