My Fair Maladies: Funny Essays and Poems on Various Ailments and Afflictions by Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo LITERATURE - Essays & Nonfiction

My Fair Maladies: Funny Essays and Poems on Various Ailments and Afflictions by Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo LITERATURE - Essays & NonfictionAlmost everyone has suffered, at one time or the other, from some ailment, real or imagined. In true Pinoy fashion, we all cope by laughing about it, proving that laughter, indeed, is the best medicine. The 64 funny essays and poems in this book are all about the maladies that have afflicted some of the best writers in the country today from a wandering eye to the big C, from an irrational fear of insects to a full blown nervous breakdown. They are

now a historic place known as Luneta in Manila City

the travails of the Franciscan friars

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Vladimir Nabokov’s Signs and Symbols

accountability and good governance on all levels of the bureaucracy

Iconic explorers and settlers are made intimately human as they plow through the un-navigated boundaries of their worlds to give shape to modern geography

Between the Homeland and Diaspora is a major

” a theological question that draws the reader to a deeper level introspection

and the victory of overcoming difficulties

The story highlights the larger tragedy that has so often been innocuously described as the "liberation of Manila'