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050 _a.C789 2020
100 _aCruz, Jhoanna Lynn B.
_eAuthor
245 _aAbi nako, or so I thought /
_cJhoanna Lynn B. Cruz.
260 _aQuezon City :
_bThe University of the Philippines Press,
_cc2020.
300 _axii, 217 pages :
_c23 cm.
365 _bPHP 995.00
504 _aIncludes reference.
505 _aAcknowledgement -- 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.
520 _aAbi 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.
610 _aAUTHORS.
_xFILIPINO.
_vBIOGRAPHY.
651 _aPHILIPPINE LITERATURE (ENGLISH).
_zPHILIPPINES DAVAO CITY.
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