Description: One Filipino American's exploration of hybrid identity and her own complicated relationship with nation, empire, family, and language.
Review Quotes: "In translating Kipling's 'The White Man's Burden' into Tagalog, Christine Imperial pries open this notoriously imperialist poem, annotating it with innovative writing full of peril, rebelliousness, and surprise. This dazzling debut is a major contribution to contemporary literary culture." --Michael Leong