Dogeaters

Dogeaters

€œAs sharp and fast as a street boy€s razor . . . a rich small feast of a book.€<i>€"The New York Times Book Review<br></i><br> Welcome to Manila in the turbulent period of the Philippines€ late dictator. It is a world in which American pop culture and local Filipino tradition mix flamboyantly, and gossip, storytelling, and extravagant behavior thrive. <br><br>A wildly disparate group of characters€"from movie stars to waiters, from a young junkie to the richest man in the Philippines€"becomes caught up in a spiral of events culminating in a beauty pageant, a film festival, and an assassination. In the center of this maelstrom is Rio, a feisty schoolgirl who will grow up to live in America and look back with longing on the land of her youth.<br><br>€œEntertaining and compelling. . . . At the end, you emerge from its intense, dreamlike world feeling as if you€ve been to the Philippines.€€"<i>The Philadelphia Inquirer</i> <br><br>€œHagedorn transcends social strata, gender, culture, and politics in this exuberant, witty, and telling portrait of Philippine society.€€"<i>The San Diego Union</i><br>