Young adult novel, women's fiction
We Who Cannot Be Daughters
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"Elena Tacio was supposed to have started her family?s curse: the mothers would not be real mothers and the daughters cannot be daughters, as the mother dies upon giving birth to a daughter. Elena fell in love with a Spanish Alferez and betrayed her husband. The Elena-Alferez affair would produce a daughter, Maria. The girl would be born on the eve of the departure of the friars from the islands because of an uprising. Elena?s friend, the Chinese mestizo migrant Sito, would take Maria to the city and take care of her. The two would be separated and Maria would be adopted by Theodore, an American missionary-turned businessman. He would rename her Maria Sarah. Sarah?s destiny would eventually be revealed to her in a dream. From Maria Sarah would descend future daughters, Laura, born in the time of Japanese Occupation, and Carmen, who would be born in the time of political chaos under an authoritarian government. They would also know about the stories of their ancestors and their destinies through the dream; but their understanding of their past would remain fragmented."
Publisher: Clarissa Villasin-Militante finished AB Literature in De La Salle University-Taft as her undergraduate course; she is now finishing her MFA in Creative Writing in the same university as full scholar, and this novel is her master?s thesis. In the initial years after graduating in the mid-?80s, she worked in news media, but has since involved herself mostly in NGO work. Her debut novel Different Countries had been long-listed in the 2009 Man Asian Literary Prize and was published by Anvil Publishing in 2010. It was also a finalist in the 2011 UP Madrigal-Gonzalez Best First Book Award.
Year: 2014
Category: Fiction - Novel
Language: English
Pages count: 191
Word count: 63700
Dimensions: 14.5 x 22.5 cm
ISBN: 978-971-506-724-9
Keywords: Japanese occupation, Women?s fiction, Feminist novel
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