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Jill Damatac Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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DIRTY KITCHEN: a memoir of 22 years undocumented in the US (2024 @astrahousebooks) • PhDing @cambridge_uni • Rep: @ce_seymour • My Substack is free👇🏼

10 books
Book Cover for: The Lottery, Shirley Jackson

The Lottery

Shirley Jackson
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@atwittya I binge-read Shirley Jackson when I was 14, just after we read The Lottery in English class…best decision of my life

Hardcover, 2008

$34.25Member price:$32.54 + Free shipping5% off
Book Cover for: Queering the Global Filipina Body: Contested Nationalisms in the Filipina/O Diaspora, Gina K. Velasco

Queering the Global Filipina Body: Contested Nationalisms in the Filipina/O Diaspora

Gina K. Velasco
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This intro! @DrGinaVelasco doing the lord’s work with her book, “Queering the Global Filipina Body” #QueerTheory #queerfeminisms https://t.co/TcZtFyJPhy

Paperback, 2020

$26.00Member price:$26.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Book Cover for: How to Live When a Loved One Dies: Healing Meditations for Grief and Loss, Thich Nhat Hanh

How to Live When a Loved One Dies: Healing Meditations for Grief and Loss

Thich Nhat Hanh
Jill DamatacJill Damatac

Finally able to read Thich Nhat Hanh’s “How To Live When A Loved One Dies”, 3 months after Dad’s death. 1-2 pages at a time, breathing, meditating, giving my grief and myself space to feel and cry, connecting to the ancestral plane where he now lives. https://t.co/SVBkcVmUxn

Paperback, 2021

$12.95Member price:$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science, Seb Falk

The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science

Seb Falk
Jill DamatacJill Damatac

No house’s library is complete without copies of the books that were written in it by its previous owners. Happy to finally have books by @Cambridge_Uni scholars @Seb_Falk (“The Light Ages”) and Susannah Gibson (“The Spirit of Inquiry”) in our little Romsey rowhouse 🏡✍🏼 https://t.co/FfrSPQG3Sh

Paperback, 2021

$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: How to Live: Boxed Set of the Mindfulness Essentials Series, Thich Nhat Hanh

How to Live: Boxed Set of the Mindfulness Essentials Series

Thich Nhat Hanh
Jill DamatacJill Damatac

Finally able to read Thich Nhat Hanh’s “How To Live When A Loved One Dies”, 3 months after Dad’s death. 1-2 pages at a time, breathing, meditating, giving my grief and myself space to feel and cry, connecting to the ancestral plane where he now lives. https://t.co/SVBkcVmUxn

Mixed Media Product, 2016

$49.75Member price:$24.88 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Familia Grande: A Memoir, Camille Kouchner

The Familia Grande: A Memoir

Camille Kouchner
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@DrPragyaAgarwal @YinFLim Currently reading “The Familia Grande”, by Camille Kouchner, a memoir translated from French and explosive in France when it was published. It’s about a circle of Left Bank Paris political and intellectual elites and a dark secret at its center. Beautifully translated!

Hardcover, 2022

$24.00Member price:$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Dogeaters: A Play about the Philippines, Jessica Hagedorn

Dogeaters: A Play about the Philippines

Jessica Hagedorn
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Buy these books now, before the new Marcos regime bans them. Adding to the list below: Ninotchka Rosca, ‘State of War’; Jessica Hagedorn, ‘Dogeaters’; Elaine Castillo, ‘America Is Not The Heart’ #nevermarcosagain https://t.co/uxXX99BfkD

Paperback, 2002

$15.95Member price:$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Spirit of Inquiry: How One Extraordinary Society Shaped Modern Science, Susannah Gibson

The Spirit of Inquiry: How One Extraordinary Society Shaped Modern Science

Susannah Gibson
Jill DamatacJill Damatac

No house’s library is complete without copies of the books that were written in it by its previous owners. Happy to finally have books by @Cambridge_Uni scholars @Seb_Falk (“The Light Ages”) and Susannah Gibson (“The Spirit of Inquiry”) in our little Romsey rowhouse 🏡✍🏼 https://t.co/FfrSPQG3Sh

Hardcover, 2019

$37.99Member price:$19.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: America Is Not the Heart, Elaine Castillo

America Is Not the Heart

Elaine Castillo
Jill DamatacJill Damatac

@minhyoungsong America Is Not the Heart, 2018, by Elaine Castillo, w/ a queer heroine recovering in California from torture under Marcos. Particularly timely right now, with Marcos’s son engineering the family’s return to power in the Phillipines this week, 36 years after the end of the regime.

Paperback, 2019

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: State of War: A Novel of Life in the Philippines, Ninotchka Rosca

State of War: A Novel of Life in the Philippines

Ninotchka Rosca
Jill DamatacJill Damatac

Buy these books now, before the new Marcos regime bans them. Adding to the list below: Ninotchka Rosca, ‘State of War’; Jessica Hagedorn, ‘Dogeaters’; Elaine Castillo, ‘America Is Not The Heart’ #nevermarcosagain https://t.co/uxXX99BfkD

Paperback, 2013

$15.00Member price:$7.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book