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I lucked into an advance reader copy of Insurrecto, and about ten pages into it, I had the same intellectual (and even bodily) response that I'd had the first time I read books like Beloved and Lolita: I knew I was reading a masterpiece already, and every subsequent page only deepened that sensation. It is quite true that one would have to have a taste for layered, experimental, dizzyingly metafictional books to fully appreciate this novel--Apostol's imagination is too fecund, too convinced of the pluralities of existence to settle for straightforward, New Yorker-style realism. But the novel is extraordinary, too, in the way it works like both a darkly comic road trip narrative and a braided, dead-serious look at the inadequately broadcast truth of U.S. imperialism in the Philippines. Three time periods--1901, the 1970s, and now--are placed like palimpsests over one another, or juxtaposed next to one another, to reveal the fundamentally cyclical nature of oppression, despotism, cultural forgetting and cultural remembrance. It is full of clever structural jokes, amusing and poignant references to pop culture (Muhammad Ali and Elvis get plenty of page space), and deeply researched history of the Balangiga Massacre of 1901. It is a nakedly political novel that, nevertheless, never feels preachy. I got an education on Philippines history and politics; I got enormous pleasure from the Nabokov-like brilliance and wit of Apostol's prose; I discovered some new writers from the many references tossed out in the book, and in the end, I came to feel more attached than I would've imagined to the two flinty women at the story's center.

This is, straight up, a literary masterpiece.


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Insurrecto Gina Apostol 9781616959449 Books Reviews

A mesmeric pastiche, a cleverly hilarious indictment, a vicious, unapologetic tour-de-force Gina Apostol’s INSURRECTO is an astonishing literary masterpiece. With a measured hand and a biting voice, she explores the blatant, often-untold atrocities of America’s actions in the Philippines.

The premise of the novel is centered on two women going to the Philippines to make a film an American filmmaker, Chiara Brasi, and a Filipina translator, Magsalin. The book, as well as the proposed film, centers on the incident on the island of Samar, in the town of Balangiga, and the ensuing, devastating slaughter of Filipinos by American soldiers. Philippine rebels were murdered en masse in retaliation to an attack on U.S. forces. Chiara and Magsalin witness the same history and present, but the stories they experience and tell diverge.

Apostol weaves history and memoir with reverie and reportage, expanding specific incidents and glossing over certain context. She pushes the boundaries of fiction in thrilling, expert swells and dives of lyricism and style. She zooms in with the eye of a filmmaker, leans back into scope with the eye of a documentarian, revels in detail and truth with the heart of a poet. The very duality of the premise sets the precedent for the multiple perspectives and identities she explores and peers through during the course of the novel.

I am an American, but my mother was born in Batangas, in the Philippines. As a reader with an intensely personal connection to the bloody conflicts between these nations, as well as one for whom the current tensions between Duterte, Trump and these nations’ citizens are immediate and serious, this brilliant novel is thrillingly refreshing. Apostol speaks the unspoken. She sees this history, this present and the Philippine people who are caught in it, and recognizes within it a horrendous, literary, political web fraught with story. It does so well to be told by her voice.

However, you don’t need to be Filipina-American to appreciate or adore this novel. You don’t even need to know much of anything about the Philippines, or its history, although you may come away from the book curious to read more. As Magsalin says to herself, “A reader does not need to know everything. How many times has she waded into someone else’s history, say the mysteries of lemon soaps and Irish pubs in Dedalus’s Dublin, or the Decembrists’ plot in Dostoyevsky’s THE DEVILS, or Gustave Flaubert’s Revolution of 1848 in what turns out to be one of her favorite books, SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION, and she would know absolutely nothing about the scenes, the historical background that drives them, the confusing cultural details, all emblematic, she imagines, to the Irish or the Russians or the French, and not really her business --- and yet she dives in, to try and figure what it is the writer wishes to tell.”

Do not be intimidated. Treat INSURRECTO like the masterpiece that it is, with patience and an open mind. Within it I found the poignancy of women artists, the fallibility of storytelling, the savage truth that is America, something like the word for home. I found this novel to be revolutionary, reclamatory, restorative, bitingly funny, eminently wise and sophisticated, an insurrecto in and of itself.

Reviewed by Maya Gittelman
I really wanted to like this but I found it impenetrable at times. Apostol has used the stories of two modern women to tell the story of atrocities at Balangiga in 1901. There's a lot going on between Chiara the filmmaker, Magsalin who translates and rewrites her script, and the history of the Philippines. The language is dense at some points and flowing at others, which made this a challenge. Ultimately and unfortunately, I DNF. Thanks to Edelweiss for the ARC. Try this if you enjoy experimental fiction.
I read this book with the avidity of a love obsessed teenager. I was not disappointed. In fact, I feel like I have to read it again. As a Waray and also a Filipino-American, I still smart at how the massacre in Samar has remained obscure, dismissed as if nothing about its howling darkness were real and the Balangiga bells remain unreturned to a traumatized people.

Gina’s telling of this story using several painful periods in the Philippines (1901, the 1970s when Marcos ruled and plundered, and the current one with a ruthless Marcos devotee as the president) gives it what I can only describe as the cadence of a feverish dance, with passions either up so high or simmering dangerously, jumping from fevered step to fevered step, perspectives, turns. How two women living in the current era go on a journey together to realize the burdens they already carry around with them, their stories juxtaposed with the pain of stories from two periods which both women want to tell. The book was hard to put down but I had to at times so I could take a breath and digest.

There were several times that I laughed out loud or smiled, recognizing that Waray wit of the author, using words I no longer hear so often. The stories though. They were enthralling.

There is a Casiana Nacionales in all of us, just as there is a Magsalin, and a Caz, even a Chiara. Gina gave these women to us in this book and we recognize ourselves. What a gift.

Thank you, Gina, for this book.

Sulong, Balangiga!
Good book
I lucked into an advance reader copy of Insurrecto, and about ten pages into it, I had the same intellectual (and even bodily) response that I'd had the first time I read books like Beloved and Lolita I knew I was reading a masterpiece already, and every subsequent page only deepened that sensation. It is quite true that one would have to have a taste for layered, experimental, dizzyingly metafictional books to fully appreciate this novel--Apostol's imagination is too fecund, too convinced of the pluralities of existence to settle for straightforward, New Yorker-style realism. But the novel is extraordinary, too, in the way it works like both a darkly comic road trip narrative and a braided, dead-serious look at the inadequately broadcast truth of U.S. imperialism in the Philippines. Three time periods--1901, the 1970s, and now--are placed like palimpsests over one another, or juxtaposed next to one another, to reveal the fundamentally cyclical nature of oppression, despotism, cultural forgetting and cultural remembrance. It is full of clever structural jokes, amusing and poignant references to pop culture (Muhammad Ali and Elvis get plenty of page space), and deeply researched history of the Balangiga Massacre of 1901. It is a nakedly political novel that, nevertheless, never feels preachy. I got an education on Philippines history and politics; I got enormous pleasure from the Nabokov-like brilliance and wit of Apostol's prose; I discovered some new writers from the many references tossed out in the book, and in the end, I came to feel more attached than I would've imagined to the two flinty women at the story's center.

This is, straight up, a literary masterpiece.