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"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"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alvar, Mia, 1978- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Filipinos > Fiction.
FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
FICTION / Cultural Heritage.
FICTION / Literary.
Filipinos.
Short stories, American.
Fiction.
Philippines > Fiction.
Description
Summary:"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"--
Physical Description:347 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:9780385352819 (hbk.)
0385352816 (hbk.)
9780804171496 (pbk.)
0804171491 (pbk.)