Gina Apostol Books in Order

As resistance to Ferdinand Marcos grows in the Philippines, Primi Peregrino pursues books and romantic encounters with their authors. Poetry gatherings bring her closer to the revolutionary moment, but she remains devoted to the belief that literature, love, and desire can make her whole.

A half-blind Filipino revolutionary records his encounters with books, politics and José Rizal in a contested memoir. Modern editors, a translator and a psychoanalyst fight through footnotes over what his account means and whose history it preserves.

Wealthy Soledad Soliman joins radical students at a Manila university, drawn toward both rebellion and romance. Years later, living far from the Philippines, she reconstructs fractured memories of a conspiracy that spiraled beyond her control and confronts the consequences of her youthful commitments.

A Filipino translator and an American filmmaker travel through the Philippines while debating a script about the 1901 violence in Balangiga. Their competing versions center different women, creating overlapping narratives that question who controls historical memory and how war is represented.

After her mother dies, a Filipino novelist living in New York investigates her family’s elusive inheritance. Conflicting memories of La Tercera lead her through colonial history and expose violence that official accounts have obscured.