**Winner, 2024 Philippine National Book Award** **Shortlisted, Fitzcarraldo & New Directions & Giramondo 2020 Novel Prize** From one of Philippines’ most engaging and versatile storytellers, comes a powerful story of familial turmoils intertwined with that of the nation. Yniga Calinauan’s quiet life is upended when a retired army general wanted for the murder of peasants and activists in the countryside is captured across the street from her house. Days later the neighbourhood is burned to the ground in what some say is retaliation. With nowhere to go, she returns to M-, the small fishing town where she grew up and now hopes to regain the quiet life she has lost. But soon she discovers that the terror she thought she had escaped in the city is right on her trail, and she must face the ‘forest of history’ that has long haunted her family.
