Name: Everlasting Nora
ISBN: 9780765394590

Marie Miranda Cruz

After a family tragedy results in the loss of both father and home, twelve-year-old Nora lives with her mother in Manila s North Cemetery, which is the largest shantytown of its kind in the Philippines.

Everlasting Nora

Sarah Sammis

The events of the fire and Nora's life before the cemetery are all told in flashback. As other reviewers have noted, the novel would have been more impactful if events had been told in order. I would have liked to learn more gradually about the mother's gambling and to get to know the father. His death and the loss of the house and the eventual move into the tomb would have been all the more tragic. The novel, though, probably would have been twice as long which would put it close to six hundred pages.

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