The newer edition of this book comes with a long introduction by the scholar E. San Juan Jr and then an additional shorter introduction by the novelist Elaine Castillo, known for her novel America is Not in the Heart. Both add some important and significant contributions to the novel. The scholarly introduction helps to place the novel critically and historically, while the writerly introduction helps to place the novel culturally within the continuum of Philippine-American literature. The novel itself is heavily autobiographicaly in its approach, […]