6/28/2023 0 Comments In the Country by Mia AlvarIt’s the author’s narrative ability-her power to surprise and weave thoughtful, intricate stories-that keeps you reading. Despite the darkness, Alvar’s prose satisfies. In doing so, Alvar brings to light the individual experience, giving a human face to struggles large and small. Through male and female voices, models and nurses, past and present, Alvar speaks on behalf of a Filipino community, dispersed throughout the world. Alvar wields her fiction as a tool to give voice to those who have witnessed and suffered at the hands of fate and human cruelty. These are rich, meaty, fulfilling stories in which everyone’s hiding something-from extramarital affairs to murder. While Alvar writes in subtle, descriptive language about Filipino characters, their jobs, and the places they live, she’s setting the reader up for jarring plot twists and shattering surprises that leave us questioning everything she’s previously written about her characters.
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