“Book Descriptions: Caroline Hau’s fiction exhibits those characteristics that have long marked her scholarship: luminous prose, keen observation, trenchant insight. Spanning some twenty-five years these stories also tell a tale of her own journey as literary artist and scholar; from the plight of a Chinese-Filipino woman during WWII grieving in silence the death of a husband to the sadly vain attempts of a turn-of-the-century Kapampangan artist to make a precarious living and to keep alive vestiges of a dying culture by painting the dead, we glimpse too a record of our own passing. – Charlson Ong” DRIVE