![]() ![]() ![]() It is in letting our tears flow and our hearts break that we also share the lolas’ pleas for all wars to end.” -Leny Mendoza Strobel, editor of Babaylan: Filipinos and the Call of the Indigenous “ Lolas’ House puts luminous human faces on the dehumanizing wartime statistics of Filipino ‘comfort women,’ whose stories we must allow to enter our bodies. This is a book that shines a light in a dark place.” -Aisling Twomey, Book Riot Crimes against women are still under-reported and often go unrecognised. ![]() “The strength, courage and perseverance of these women is, truthfully, sort of life changing. Pham, author of Catfish and Mandala and The Eaves of Heaven Evelina Galang at her courageous, literary best." -Andrew X. "A riveting work of profound historical importance, Lolas' House gives lasting voice to the Filipino comfort women-these perishing victims of the Japanese Imperial Army of WW II who wait still for an apology from Japan. Evelina Galang as evidence that these crimes occurred.” -Maxine Hong Kingston, author of The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts Courageous, aged grandmothers tell their stories and show their wounded bodies to M. ![]() “ Lolas’ House is the last stand of women who survived the kidnapping and rape that was Japanese army strategy in World War II. ![]()
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