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These nine globe-trotting, unforgettable stories from Mia Alvar, a remarkable new literary talent, vividly give voice to the ladies and men of the Filipino diaspora. Listed below are exiles, emigrants, and wanderers uprooting their own families from the Philippines to get started new lives in the centre East, the United States, and elsewhere - and sometimes turning again. A pharmacist residing in New York smuggles drugs to his ailing father in Manila, only to discover alarming truths about his family and his past. A Filipina teacher attracted to a special pupil finds, to her surprise, that she is questioning her own marriage. A school student leans on her brother, a laborer in Saudi Arabia, to aid her writing ambitions, without realizing that his is the life truly made for fiction. And in the title story, a journalist and a nurse face an unspeakable trauma amid the political turmoil of the Philippines in the 1970s and '80s. In the Country speaks to the heart of everybody who have ever searched for a destination to call home. From teachers to housemaids, from mothers to sons, Alvar's powerful debut collection explores the universal experience of loss, displacement, and the longing to hook up across borders both real and imagined. Deeply compassionate and richly felt, In the Country marks the emergence of a formidable new writer.
