In this collection of essays, Priscilla Supnet Macansantos reflects on her life and times, including those of family members, whose lives were marked by departures from home, hometown and homeland.  Woven into the fabric of individual lives are events and “upheavals” in history – the peasant unrest in the early 20th century, the war in the 1940s, martial rule, the 1990 Luzon earthquake, and the 2020 pandemic – leading to departure and separation. Macansantos writes with candor and melancholy, though not without  hopefulness, because memory bears many gifts, including understanding and insight, and possibly, healing. 

Publisher:
University of the Philippines Press, Philippines

Publication Date:
2021

Format:
Softcover/ 9 x 6 inches/115 pages/ BW

Language:
English

ISBN: 978971542947-4