Isabela

A mother, daughter, wife, lover, friend, teacher, cadre, rebolusyonarya: these are the voices that make up the rich, sensuous saga in Isabela, told against the backdrop of nearly three decades of our history. Here is the story of how a life is shaped, wounded, and made whole by the ongoing insurgency in the countryside. How a life takes on many forms, by force or fate. At both turns urgent and meditative, rare and banal, Isabela draws a memorable landscape of a place, time, and woman."e;Kaisa Aquino s first novel, Isabela, is a lyrical confluence of stories of the land and the women whose lives are shaped by the contours of Isabela, in the Cagayan Valley, and three decades of the continuing people s war for social justice and liberation."e; Marjorie Evasco,author of It Is Time to Come Home"e;In Aquino s novel, Isabela is both actual place and Woman, both a haven for stories from the periphery those about the women whose personal lives are interlaced with the collective struggles of the underground movement. Experimental. Poignant."e; Sarah Lumba-Tajonera,author of The Shoemaker s Daughter