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Win a Book Wednesday: “Insurrecto”

Post Published: October 24, 2018

Win a Copy of "Insurrecto" by Gina Apolstol

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About "Insurrecto"

"A Filipino translator returns home to confront her past, only to be roped into a job helping an American filmmaker trying to do the same. As they travel to the site of the Philippine-American War’s horrendous but largely forgotten Balangiga Massacre they present dueling movie scripts.

Told in short chapters that jump through storylines and time periods, the effect is a kaleidoscopic meta-fiction on the nature of history at the micro and macro levels, layered underneath stories of women reclaiming their lives, identities, and countries. Apostol’s sharply drawn scenes and characters make a literary masterpiece that is at turns hilarious and heartbreaking, and always compulsively readable."

Reviewed for you here by librarian Jennie. Publication date is set as November 6, 2018.

Want to Win this Book?

  • Leave a comment below on Wednesday, Oct. 24, and share the name of your favorite tangled war narrative.
  • Everyone who leaves a comment here, on Facebook OR Twitter will be entered into a random drawing (Library employees are not eligible). Please only enter in one place.
  • The winner will be contacted by email on Thursday, Oct. 25.
  • The winner can pick up their prize at the Library location of their choice.

Win a Book Wednesdays takes place twice a month. Prize books are Advance Reader Copies (ARCs) of books that will be added to the Library collection within the next month, and can already be found in the Library catalog as "on order."

ARCs are uncorrected proofs given to the Library for review purposes only, and are not for sale.

 

October 24, 2018 by Web Editor Filed Under: App, News

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Amanda J says

    October 24, 2018 at 9:21 AM

    The Last Silk Dress by Ann Rinaldi has been a favorite since middle school. It’s a story about going against your family’s wishes for what you believe is right.

    • Ellen Smythe says

      October 24, 2018 at 2:55 PM

      My most recent favorite war story is The Girl from the Train. It’s a thrilling story of a young Jewish escapee from a cattle car and how she managed to survive World War II and the Holocaust

  2. Emma S says

    October 24, 2018 at 10:11 AM

    The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir by Jennifer Ryan. It has multiple viewpoints from different people in a British village during WWII, mostly told in letters. I loved the different storylines and liked seeing how people changed as the war went on.

  3. Kelly Karoly says

    October 24, 2018 at 9:02 PM

    Nightengale by Kristin Hannah. The book follows two sisters in France from 1939 through WW2, told by the sister in old age. You learn of the different paths the two took and there’s even a twist at the end.

  4. Kelly K says

    October 24, 2018 at 9:15 PM

    I loved the Nightengale by Kristin Hannah. It’s a WW2 story of two sisters and the different paths they took through the war while in France. It’s narrated by one of the sisters in her old age.

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