{"product_id":"9781641295727","title":"La Tercera","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn her first novel since \u003ci\u003eInsurrecto, \u003c\/i\u003eGina  Apostol assembles a vision of Philippine history from the 19th century  to present day in the fragmented story of the Delgados, a family  surviving across generations of colonization, catastrophe, and war.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRosario, a Filipina novelist in New York City, has just learned of  her mother’s death in the Philippines. Instead of rushing home, she puts  off her return by embarking on a remote investigation into her family’s  history and her mother’s supposed inheritance, a place called La  Tercera, which may or may not exist. Rosario catalogs generations of  Delgado family bequests and detritus: maps of uncertain purpose, rusted  chicken coops, a secret journal, the words to songs sung at the family  home during visits from Imelda Marcos.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach life  Rosario explores opens onto an array of other lives and raises a  multitude of new questions. But as the search for La Tercera becomes  increasingly labyrinthine, Rosario’s mother and the entire Delgado  family emerge in all their dizzying complexity: traitors and heroes,  reactionaries and revolutionaries. Meanwhile, another narrative takes  shape—of the country’s erased history of exploitation and slaughter at  the hands of American occupying forces.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLa Tercera\u003c\/i\u003e is Gina Apostol’s most ambitious, personal, and encompassing novel: a  story about what seems impossible—capturing the truth of the past—and  the terrible cost to a family, or a country, that fails to try.","brand":"Gina Apostol","offers":[{"title":"Soho Press |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2024-04-02","offer_id":44663237869823,"sku":"9781641295727","price":25.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_1891ed30-a799-48d8-ab54-373b39142cfc.jpg?v=1704534766","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781641295727","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}