Title: Baby Jesus Pawnshop
Description: Set in Manila during the regime of Ferdinand Marcos, Rue Caldwell, the wife of an American counter-insurgency specialist, and Doming Aquinaldo, a Filipino dissident working as a chauffeur for Rue's husband, find themselves falling in love.
Subjects: Fiction, Dissenters, Insurgency, Political fiction, Americans, History, Literature & Fiction / Literature
Places: Philippines, Manila (Philippines)
Time periods: 1946-1986