While the Blanket Is Short Learn To Curl Up

While the Blanket is Short Learn to Curl Up speaks of a world that is at once both foreign and familiar exotic and mundane localized and trans-global but always human. These stories from the Philippines and its global Diaspora reveal the intimate spaces of a culture in transition. They explore the triumphant and tragic aspects of a community like no other with characters and circumstances that inspire the imagination and pull at the heart strings.______ A wonderful book ... Mike Hawkins explores the minds and hearts of Filipinos allowing us to feel their passion pain and loneliness. -- Rosemary Sneeringer The Book NurturerA multifaceted collection of short-stories these narratives reflect the unique lives and experiences of individuals while knitting together a larger Filipino narrative. This book successfully questions the one-dimensional portrayal often attributed to Filipinos today and is definitely a worthwhile experience for any reader. -- Philip Cerepak