In The Company of Strangers
Title: In The Company of Strangers
Author: Michelle Cruz Skinner
Description:
Sixteen deceptively simple stories comprise Michelle Cruz Skinner's much-anticipated follow-up to Balikbayan and Mango Seasons, many of them about Filipinos tongue-tied and alienated in the motherland, or scattered across the map of heartaches and homesickness in the company of strangers called countrymen, family, lovers. A book of quit gems definitely worth the wait. -R. Zamora Linmark, author of Prime Time Apparitions and The Evolution of a Sigh
The essential subject of these captivating stories is memory, but memory filtered by what cannot - or even should not - be said. The corrosive effects of a secret history, the burdens of understanding, are limited through stories both spare and lyrical. In a way, these stories tell akind of love story: the love of a daughter for a heritage that, even while suppressed or denied, can never be erased. -Marianne Villanueva author of Ginseng and Other Tales from Manila and Mayor of the Roses: Stories
ISBN: 978-091004381-6
Price: US$18.00
$18.00 |
