# In the Country

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- Book: [In the Country](https://www.bookquiver.com/mia-alvar/in-the-country) ([In the Country.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/mia-alvar/in-the-country.md))
- Authors: [Mia Alvar](https://www.bookquiver.com/mia-alvar)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-08-0417-149-6
- Pages: 368
- Published: 2016-03-02
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In these nine globe-trotting tales, Mia Alvar gives voice to the women and men of the Philippines and its diaspora. A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century From teachers to housemaids, from...