Five More to Go: Gina Apostol’s Insurrecto [in The Booklist Reader]
19 Nov, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Filipina/o, Filipina/o American, Lists, Repost, Short Stories, Young Adult Readers
Insurrecto by Gina Apostol With shrewd insight, inventive plotting, and stinging history lessons, Gina Apostol, who received the PEN Open Book Award for Gun Dealers’ Daughter (2012), puts the “unremembered” Philippine-American War on literary display. Adjectives such as humorous, playful, and ingenious seem almost disrespectful when describing a book anchored...
Ben Lucero, a Filipino American priest, arrives in the Philippines for the first time to bury his mother in her homeland. As a guest of his Aunt Clara, his mother’s lifelong best friend, he experiences the...