Publisher's Synopsis
Yñiga Calinauan's quiet life in a suburb of Manila is upended when a retired army general wanted for the murder of peasants and activists is captured across the street from her house. Days later the neighbourhood is burned to the ground in what some say is retaliation. With nowhere to go, she returns with her cat, Jestoni, to the small fishing town where she grew up and now hopes to regain the quiet life she has lost. But soon she discovers that the terror she thought she had escaped in the city is right on her trail, and she must face the "forest of history" that has long haunted her family. For Yñiga there is no escape, only resistance. With lyrical storytelling evocative of Arundhati Roy or of an Almodóvar film, the novel is set during a spate of political killings in the Philippines during the 2000s.
