Abi nako, or so I thought /
Cruz, Jhoanna Lynn B.
Abi nako, or so I thought / Jhoanna Lynn B. Cruz. - Quezon City : The University of the Philippines Press, c2020. - xii, 217 pages : 23 cm.
Includes reference.
Acknowledgement -- Nesting -- Arsenal -- Sapay koma -- Dayls like this, mommy said -- How I wonder what you are -- Staying alive -- Shaken and stirred -- Abi nako, or so I thought -- Dear Joy, erased, with thanks -- Learn to dive in nine steps, more or less -- How to deal with a secret or two -- Claiming our inheritance -- Do not resuscitate -- In the fellowhip of the martyrs -- Coming home: a study in disaster -- The house on macopa street -- Buying the house on macopa street -- Epilogue -- Directions for my care -- References -- About the author.
Abi Nako, or So I Thought is a memoir of Cruz’s first ten years in Davao City, where she moved after her heterosexual marriage had failed. It is about her efforts to rebuild her life as a single mother to two children and her adventures in (re)fashioning herself as a writer and a lesbian in the face of her own false expectations.
9789715429245
AUTHORS.--FILIPINO.--BIOGRAPHY.
PHILIPPINE LITERATURE (ENGLISH).--PHILIPPINES DAVAO CITY.
C789 2020
Abi nako, or so I thought / Jhoanna Lynn B. Cruz. - Quezon City : The University of the Philippines Press, c2020. - xii, 217 pages : 23 cm.
Includes reference.
Acknowledgement -- Nesting -- Arsenal -- Sapay koma -- Dayls like this, mommy said -- How I wonder what you are -- Staying alive -- Shaken and stirred -- Abi nako, or so I thought -- Dear Joy, erased, with thanks -- Learn to dive in nine steps, more or less -- How to deal with a secret or two -- Claiming our inheritance -- Do not resuscitate -- In the fellowhip of the martyrs -- Coming home: a study in disaster -- The house on macopa street -- Buying the house on macopa street -- Epilogue -- Directions for my care -- References -- About the author.
Abi Nako, or So I Thought is a memoir of Cruz’s first ten years in Davao City, where she moved after her heterosexual marriage had failed. It is about her efforts to rebuild her life as a single mother to two children and her adventures in (re)fashioning herself as a writer and a lesbian in the face of her own false expectations.
9789715429245
AUTHORS.--FILIPINO.--BIOGRAPHY.
PHILIPPINE LITERATURE (ENGLISH).--PHILIPPINES DAVAO CITY.
C789 2020
