M. Evelina Galang

During World War II more than one thousand Filipinas were kidnapped by the Imperial Japanese Army. Lolas’ House tells the stories of sixteen surviving Filipino “comfort women.” M. Evelina Galang enters into the lives of the women at Lolas’ House, a community center in metro Manila. She accompanies them to the sites of their abduction and protests with them at the gates of the Japanese embassy. Each woman gives her testimony, and even though the women relive their horror at each telling, they offer their stories so that no woman anywhere should suffer wartime rape and torture. Lolas’ House is a book of testimony, but it is also a book of witness, of survival, and of the female body. Intensely personal and globally political, it is the legacy of Lolas’ House to the world.

Filipino Women Living with War

Lolas' House

Seventeen stories nimbly traversing borderlines, mythic and real, in the lives of Filipino and Filipino American women and their ancestors. Like red gumamela--hibiscus flowers--that bloom spectacularly for a day before other blossoms take their place, the stories in When the Hibiscus Falls examine the triumphs, sorrows, and connections between generations of women. Whether in small villages in the Philippines of the past, the hurricane-beaten coast of present-day Florida, or traversing the physical and psychological distance between the two, these daughters, sisters, mothers, aunties, and lolas are in conversation with both their ancestors and their descendants--which is evidenced by characters recurring across stories and the appearance of familiar figures from M. Evelina Galang's other writing. When the Hibiscus Falls is a richly evocative collection that examines the complexity of family, community, and Filipino American identity.

When the Hibiscus Falls

Her Wild American Self

Stories on Filipina Americans, exploring what it is to be American and female. Our Fathers describes a daughter's reaction upon seeing her father, a lawyer, work in the U.S. as a busboy, while The Look-Alike Women, is on white men's simplistic perceptions of Oriental women.

Short Stories

Susan Orlean

Mark Vonnegut

Kim Barnes

Paul Lisicky

M. J. Fievre

Jan Becker

Lori Jakiela

Dan Wakefield

Tabitha Blankenbiller

Elizabeth Dalton

Rebecca Cook

Elmaz Abinader

Christine Butterworth-McDermott

Andrea Askowitz

Lisbeth Davidow

Dinty Moore

Russell Reece

Sliver of Stone magazine presents its first volume of collected nonfiction. From the mouth of a Seattle whale to a Nordstrom's swimsuit department, from an Idaho fundamentalist church to a fathomless Florida lake, the fifteen stories in ALL THAT GLITTERS recount lives and identities unsettled by impending doom. Also included are four remarkable interviews with award-winning nonfiction writers, including Susan Orlean, author of The Orchid Thief and Rin Tin Tin."Fresh, fierce, and enlightening, All That Glitters is a find. The talented nonfiction writers in this collection invite us along on the complicated, sometimes scary, but irresistible pursuit of truth." (Lynne Barrett, author of Magpies and The Secret Names of Women)

A Sliver of Stone Nonfiction Anthology

All That Glitters

Angel leaves Manila for snowy Chicago, taking a tradition of protest—and some old family hurts—with her.

Angel de la Luna and the 5th Glorious Mystery

Sunaina Maira

Eileen Tabios

Art, fiction, poetry and essays critiquing Asian and Asian American images in media, government, and popular culture.

Critiques of Asian American Images

Screaming Monkeys

Fiction. Asian Studies. In ONE TRIBE, the death of Isabel Manalo's unborn child stirs wide spread speculation in her small Midwestern suburb. Fed up with the noise of local tsismosas (gossips), she moves to Virginia Beach to teach myth and history to Filipino American youth. Isa Manalo walks into the chaos of drive by shootings, beauty pageants, and community politicking. At every turn she butts heads with youth gangs who distrust her, community elders who disapprove of her loose outsider ways, and a Filipino boyfriend who accuses her of acting too white. Eventually Isa fights back. As Hurricane Emilia brews at the edge of the east coast, Isa opens her house to a local girl gang and nourishes their troubled spirits, instigating change sudden as the shift of tropical winds. ONE TRIBE is the winner of an AWP Award Series in the Novel, judged by Elizabeth McCracken.

A Novel

One Tribe

M. Evelina Galang

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