Eating Fire and Drinking Water
A Novel
"I was someone hungry for stories; more specifically, I was someone who craved after facts. I was, you see, a person with no history. Lacking this, I developed a curiosity about other's people's stories. . . ."
Clara Perez is a reporter on a small South Seas island. An orphan raised by nuns, she is a young woman with origins shrouded in mystery. Full of idealistic ambition, she grows tired of the trivial assignments she's given at the daily paper, yearning to write articles of substance. So when the tiny street of Calle de Leon bursts into flames after a student demonstration--and a soldier kills an unarmed man--Clara seizes the chance to cover the explosive story.
Yet after Clara rushes to the…
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January 26, 2011Arlene J. Chai was born and educated in Manila. In 1982, she migrated to Sydney with her parents and sisters. After more years as an advertising copywriter than she cares to mention, she had a year off during which she wrote her first book, The Last Time I Saw Mother.