Before the tears could start coming, Nini asked her parents whether Maggie, her older cousin living in Quezon City, had a Tagalog dictionary. Nini thought it was time to put more effort into learning the language. Everything seemed to be staked on it, after all. Her mother suddenly became ...
she initially met Sitan (I didn’t realize they were part of the Tagalog pantheon); the confusion of her love affairs and friendships; her frustration about the benefit Lapu-Lapu’s bloodline has taken from colonizers and dictators because of the bargain; the lack of choice available to women...