Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Mia Alvar" in English language version.
... powerful novella ...graceful metaphor ... precise and patient prose ... expansiveness and her gift for grounded, human-scale metaphors....
...Alvar's speciality: the smart depiction of lives lived between two worlds. ... vivid glimpses of street life in Manila, ...
...disparate lives of Filipino immigrants and ex-pats living in New York and Manila and in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia ... Alvar arrived at her first story after her own homecoming. It happened in 1999, when she went back to the Philippines for the first time...
...gorgeous writing style ... the theme of exile; yet, every main character's situation is distinct, morally messy in a different way, and unpredictable. Alvar is the kind of writer whose imagination seems inexhaustible...
...Giving voice to the Filipino diaspora, Alvar's fine tales offer portraits of transnational wanderers both blessed and cursed with mobility....
... a writer with enchanting powers...
