Leche

After thirteen years of living in the U.S., Vince returns to his birthplace, the Philippines. As he ventures into the heat and chaos of the city, he encounters a motley cast of characters, including a renegade nun, a political film director, arrogant hustlers, and the country’s spotlight-driven First Daughter. Haunted by his childhood memories and a troubled family history, Vince unravels the turmoil, beauty, and despair of a life caught between a fractured past and a precarious future.

Witty and mesmerizing, this novel explores the complex colonial and cultural history of the Philippines and the paradoxes inherent in the search for both personal and national identities.

R. Zamora Linmark is the author of the novel Rolling the R's (Kaya Press) and two poetry collections, Prime Time Apparitions and The Evolution of a Sigh (Hanging Loose Press). Linmark splits his time between Manila and Honolulu.

• The Pagoda
• Unruly Visions: The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe)
• Writing the Future: Progress and Evolution (Terra Nova Books)
• Bright Lines: A Novel
• The Importance of Being Wilde at Heart
• Rolling the R's
• Comfort Woman
• Inside Out and Back Again
• Journey of the Universe
• American Born Chinese