{"id":12630,"date":"2022-06-07T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=12630"},"modified":"2022-05-05T09:50:25","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T14:50:25","slug":"ignoring-wounded-little-gods-doesnt-mean-theyre-gone-by-eliza-victoria-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=12630","title":{"rendered":"Ignoring WOUNDED LITTLE GODS doesn’t mean they’re gone, by Eliza Victoria (book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Gods of wind, of death,
spirits of dew and seedlings and soil –
unheeded, unneeded by modern life\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regina was so glad to escape her hometown in the Philippine countryside, even if her first job out of college isn’t world-changing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hanging out in new co-worker Diane’s apartment, waiting for rush hour to subside, Regina notices many books on eugenics and terrible experiments on human beings<\/a> – what a strange conversation they lead to!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diane never returns to work, and Regina finds a hand-drawn map in her bag – a map of her hometown in detail, with notes in Diane’s writing, showing buildings that aren’t there and a big X and two persons’ names.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regina makes a quick trip back to Heridos to ask her parents about it – they say a doctor at the hospital has a similar name, and aren’t there just trees on that part of Ka Edgar’s old farm? A phone call to her much older brother Luciano isn’t any help either. Hmmmm\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trekking through the summer humidity to the abandoned farm, Regina finds hidden buildings (Center for Heredity and Genetics!?) – and a woman who says that Diane is late in returning. No, Florina can’t leave her little house to help Regina look for her\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, the young doctor says he doesn’t know anything about that Center, but a lady in the waiting room sees that map and exclaims that she was detained there as a child! Clara retells nightmarish stories of small bodies under white sheets, but now there are only woods where Regina found the Center recently\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Luciano hurriedly drives to Heridos, two gods<\/a> appear in his car, asking about his sister and offering their help – oh, he remembers how that went the last time\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe past is never dead. It\u2019s not even past,\u201d said American writer William Faulkner – how very, very true for everyone connected to that Center for Heredity and Genetics!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With its storyline based on too-real human experimentation centers, this Finalist for the National Book Awards in the Philippines is available for the first time in the US now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where do you see the older ways amid the busyness of today?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book info<\/strong>: Wounded Little Gods \/ Eliza Victoria. Tuttle Publishing, 2022 (US), 2015 (Philippines). [author site<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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