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Moving, sexy, and archly funny, Gina Apostol's Philippine National Book Award-winning Bibliolepsy is a love letter to the written word and a brilliantly unorthodox look at the rebellion that brought down a dictatorship. Gina Apostol's debut novel, available for the first time in the US, tells of a young woman caught between a lifelong desire to escape into books and a real-world revolution. It is the mid-eighties, two decades into the kleptocratic, brutal rule of Ferdinand Marcos. The Philippine economy is in deep recession, and civil unrest is growing by the day. But Primi Peregrino has her own priorities: tracking down books and pursuing romantic connections with their authors. For Primi, the nascent revolution means that writers are gathering more often, and with greater urgency, so that every poetry reading she attends presents a veritable ""Justice League"" of authors for her to choose among. As the Marcos dictatorship stands poised to topple, Primi remains true to her fantasy: that she, ""a vagabond from history, a runaway from time,"" can be saved by sex, love, and books.

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Gina Apostol is the author of the novels Insurrecto, Gun Dealers' Daughter, Bibliolepsy, and The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata. She is the winner of two Philippine National Book Awards, the PEN/Open Award, and the Rome Prize. She lives in New York City and western Massachusetts and grew up in Tacloban, Leyte, in the Philippines. Rachel Coates is a storyteller who believes that empathy could save the world. A fresh ADMU grad, she has been laying down roots in the local theater industry as a playwright, stage actress, and director for sixteen years. You'd most often find her making/sipping tea, concocting terrible puns, or escaping into anything science fiction. You can find her as Coates on Spotify.

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