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Gina Apostol was born in Manila and lives in New York. Her first novel, Bibliolepsy, won the 1998 Philippine National Book Award for Fiction. She just completed her third novel, The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata, a comic historical novel-in-footnotes about the Philippine war for independence against Spain and America in 1896.

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As August 21 Approaches

Someone who listened to my speech at the University of Hawaii mentioned there is a youtube recording of it. On this coming anniversary of the event, the Marcos government’s murder of Ninoy Aquino, that led to the rebellion that kicked out the dictator, I am sharing that video of the speech here. Thanks to Jerry Carlson, who sent me the link. (as for Fuck Paradise, I do not mean Hawaii: but that wa

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	Insurrecto 3.51 avg rating — 1,800 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Manila Noir (Akashic Noir) by Jessica Hagedorn (Editor), Lysley Tenorio (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Rosario Cruz-Lucero (Contributor) 3.90 avg rating — 1,004 ratings — published 2013 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bibliolepsy 3.21 avg rating — 908 ratings — published 1997 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gun Dealers' Daughter 3.82 avg rating — 624 ratings — published 2010 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata 3.70 avg rating — 554 ratings — published 2009 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La Tercera 3.19 avg rating — 170 ratings — published 2023 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Thirdest World: Stories and Essays by Three Filipino Writers by Gina Apostol (Goodreads Author), Eric Gamalinda, Lara Stapleton really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Catfish Arriving in Little Schools by Gina Apostol (Goodreads Author), Clinton Palanca, Jaime An Lim 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best Contemporary Filipino Novelists 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“The sea is a memory. It is mesmerising. Its beauty is intolerable. What it buries is vaster than what it reveals. Every so often you get a glimpse of what you forget, or you wade in and something snags you, a broken shell or a sea urchin the fishermen missed...No waves speak with the same voice, though they share the same elements and motion, the regular beating of the surf, their rippling heaves.”
― Gina Apostol, Insurrecto

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“She calls these reader moments the quibbles—when she gets stuck in the faulty notion that everything in a book must be grasped. Why should readers be spooked about not knowing all the details in a book about the Philippines yet surge forward with resolve in stories about France?”
― Gina Apostol, Insurrecto

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“At times, she feels discomfort over matters she knows nothing about, and Magsalin hears rising up in her that quaver that readers have, as if the artist should be holding her hand as she is walked through the story. But she rides the wave, she checks herself. A reader does not need to know everything”
― Gina Apostol, Insurrecto

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