{"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":"Soho Press, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47918160773360,"sku":"9781641295727","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781641295727_p0.jpg?v=1763687085","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781641295727","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}