I totally love Arlene Chai! I wish she would write more. She writes so skillfully it was like watching the scenes unfold before your eyes. Eating Fire and Drinking Water is a kaleidoscope of really dark colors (LOL!) but still done oh so seductively you're drawn into it like a moth to a flame. Like her first novel The Last Time I saw Mother, this too delved into the political air of the Philippines during the time of dictatorship and you can't help but try to decipher which is real and which is make-believe. Was there really a Luis Bayani she promised to write about someday? The graphic details all the more made it so laden with malice, it's almost like getting your hands into an unauthorized publication.
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