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Book Name: The Woman Who Had Two Navels and Tales of the Tropical Gothic
Authors: Nick Joaquin
Pages: 438
Genre: Historical Fiction
Publish Date: Apr 18, 2018
Language: English

Book Review:

The Woman Who Had Two Navels the story begins with connie's cover acquiring to dr pepe monson's little hong kong office seeking for medical help regarding her imaginary two neighbors she explained to the doctor about the hardship and frustration of not being accepted as normal

because of her extraordinary physical trait dr pepe at first believed her but was quickly corrected of the connie's falsehood through her mother concha vidal other characters get muddled up in the affair notably paco texira a married man had left his wife and babies in hong kong to work in manila for a while during his day he became very intimate with concha

vidan who seems to have had a special interest in fine young men this intimacy was never physical however before his sudden departure from manila he caught himself nearly raping connie in the heat of confusion connie had entertained paco shortly after finding out her husband's

hard secret about his unusual relationship with her mother eventually connie finds backwards will to live on in the midst of the gloomy world primarily through revelations of truth contributed by pepe and father tony and to a near death encounter with her car crashing down a cliff

she decides to run off with paco to macau to start a new life tragically however her mother and her husband still thinks she had perished and even more tragically ends their lives together macho walked into the room of grieving concha with and shooting her several times and eventually

shooting himself too in the means of all the madness another story is quietly told of the father of pepe and troy dr monson the old aging dr manson live in this dream world escaping the reality what he called a horrible word of grabs and dust with this opium to stimulate the fantasy he had excelled

himself from the american-controlled philippines as a stubborn nationalist who pledged never to return until his homeland was free again thus setting the story in hong kong with his sons never to have stepped on their native land

when he finally did return to his free country he was disappointed by the destruction of his expectations miserably going back to hong kong to live a vegetable it was only his that but he did he realized the foolishness of his fantasy experiencing the proof but true of having his sons as shining ornaments in the midst of the dust and crabs

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