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You have to read the first two books of Carmen Guerrero-Nakpil’s trilogy to appreciate the last, “Exeunt”.
The first, which I think is the best of the three titles, is “Myself, Elsewhere” which tells of the genteel little Spanish and later American town of Ermita by Manila Bay where she was born and raised. It ended with the destruction of Manila in 1945.
The book won the National Book Award for autobiography in 2006.