In the country
Subtitle: stories
By: Mia Alvar
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780385352819
Subjects: Filipinos; Fiction
Work titles: Short stories
Description: "Mia Alvar's ... debut gives us a vivid ... picture of the Filipino diaspora: exiles and emigrants and wanderers uprooting their families to begin new lives in the Middle East and America--and, sometimes, turning back"--
Table of contents: title: The kontrabida --; title: The miracle worker --; title: Legends of the white lady --; title: Shadow families --; title: The Virgin of Monte Ramon --; title: Esmeralda --; title: Old girl --; title: A contract overseas --; title: In the country.