![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “The more we moved around, the harder it became to answer the question of where I came from,” she says. “The Kontrabida,” the story of a New York-based pharmacist who smuggles drugs to his bedridden father in Manila, is one of the nine globe-trotting stories in the collection that gives voice to the men and women of the Filipino diaspora, following them to their new lives in the Middle East, the United States, and elsewhere.īorn in Manila, Alvar and her family moved to Bahrain when she was six years old, staying there for four years before relocating once more to New York, where they eventually settled. The inspiration for the very first story in Mia Alvar’s book In the Country came from her last visit to the Philippines 16 years ago. ![]()
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