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Jessica Hagedorn has received wide critical acclaim for her edgy, high-energy novels chronicling the clash and embrace of American and Filipino cultures. With Dream Jungle, she achieves a new level of narrative daring.
Set in a Philippines of desperate beauty and rank corruption, Dream Jungle feverishly traces the consequences of two seemingly unrelated events: the discovery of an alleged 'lost tribe' and the arrival of a celebrity-studded American film crew filming an epic Vietnam War movie. Caught in the turmoil unleashed by these two incidents are four unforgettable characters-a wealthy, iconoclastic playboy, a woman ensnared in the sex industry, a Filipino-American writer, and a jaded actor-who find themselves drawn irrevocably together in this lavish, sensual portrait of a nation in crisis.
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K E Baxter
reviewed Dream Jungle on April 07, 2010 Dream Jungle
I don't understand why every single Filipino/a out there isn't giving this book 5 stars. Whatever your predilections are as far as plot goes, this is a vivid and imaginative book, written by a delightful Filipina writer with a strong voice (Hagedorn). The book DEFINITELY has something to say about race, class, the clash of cultures, the views of outsiders juxtaposed with the views of insiders, and the complicated post-colonial world that is the Philippines. I for one LOVED the ending. I was worried that it was going to be a cheese-fest at the end (i.e. Rizalina would be "saved" by the white American actor and whisked away to America to spend her days living as his exotic trophy wife). Instead, Hagedorn gives us something more complicated, a bit more subtle and very very well done.
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