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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Lorina Mapa's wonderful graphic memoir gave me waves of nostalgia - we shared all the same eighties crushes and intense love of eighties music (how many times did my heart break listening to Tears for Fears album The Hurting? Too numerous to count). I feel this so strongly too: "There is a certain window in age (for me it was between 11 and 18) when your reaction to music is so powerful and pure that nothing you listen to afterwards can grab at your emotions in the same way." (page 63 ) Mapa's intensively personal recounting of the EDSA revolution in the Philippines - a bloodless revolution is fascinating and inspiring. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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"A graphic memoir about growing up in the Philippines in the 1980s with Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Imelda Marcos and the EDSA Revolution. When she learns of her beloved father's fatal car accident, Mapa flies to Manila to attend his funeral. His sudden death sparks childhood memories. Weaving the past with the present, Mapa entertains with stories about religion, pop culture, adolescence, social class and politics, including her experiences of the 1986 People Power Revolution which made headlines around the world. It is a love letter to her parents, family, friends, country of birth, and in the end, perhaps even to herself"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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It was interesting to revisit the fall of Marcos from the perspective of someone closer to the events, but at the same time the author also seems distant from them, as she was just a child at the time, a child of privilege at that, who left the Philippines shortly after Ferdinand and Imelda did to live in North America and only tell this story decades later from Canada. (It reminds me of [b:Such a Lovely Little War: Saigon 1961-63|29363260|Such a Lovely Little War Saigon 1961-63|Marcelino Truong|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1466632964s/29363260.jpg|49608682] in that way.)
Also, though it wasn't in the mission statement of this graphic memoir, it feels odd that no mention was made of the recent political developments in the Philippines, especially since they seem to contrast so starkly to the nature of the Philippine people as illustrated in this book. This is a good book, but I was hoping for more insight into a country I should know more about. ( )