In the Country: Stories

by Mia Alvar

Book Overview

These nine globe-trotting, unforgettable stories from Mia Alvar, a remarkable new literary talent, vividly give voice to the women and men of the Filipino diaspora. Here are exiles, emigrants, and wanderers uprooting their families from the Philippines to begin new lives in the Middle East, the United States, and elsewhere and, sometimes, turning back again. A pharmacist living in New York smuggles drugs to his ailing father in Manila, only to discover...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385352816
• ISBN13: 9780385352819
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 8.5"