5/28/2023 0 Comments In the country by mia alvar![]() ![]() A pharmacist smuggles painkillers to his dying father in “The Kontrabida” a broke fashion model books a gig in Manila in “Legends of the White Lady” a nurse and her journalist husband are caught up in labor strikes in “In the Country.” Alvar enumerates the sacrifices, large and small, that people make in pursuit of some distant, better life.Ī former English concentrator and resident of Quincy House, Alvar often spent her earnings from an admissions-office job at the Harvard Bookstore. Alvar’s collection explores different corners of the Filipino diaspora, stretching from Bahrain to Boston. Soon enough, he learns-as all the characters of her book, In The Country, do-that love costs. ![]() ![]() “R elax! Love’s a miracle, not a disaster,” a man counsels his doubtful younger sister in a short story by Mia Alvar ’00. ![]()
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