banana summer

banana summer

1: how does hunger affect people ? What is the basis for you answer?

2: how does poverty affect people? What is the basis for you answer? 

3: how does the novel affect your understanding hunger and poverty?

1:Told from the point of view of Nenita or Nining, a young girl who is the first born of six (6) children in a poor family in the province in the 1960’s, the novel is refreshing, bittersweet, innocent, and hopeful. Raised in a small house on Remedios street with a huge church on one end and with a towering volcano in the other, she was the observer and the witness of the comings and goings in the town, of the sweet stories, of the mini scandals, and of the tragedies that happened.
 
2:After a few months of reading a chapter or two during my ‘pockets of freetime,’ upon waking up, before sleeping or during lunch time at work, and during brief stops in my recent Ilocos trip, I finally finished reading last weekend the novel “Banana Heart Summer.” My heart reeled with emotions – joy, sadness, grief, and my stomach is missing a lot of snacks and recipes that warm the heart and bring back childhood memories.

3: Each chapter features a dish, a story, a twist. Your palate relishes the meal; your curiosity is whetted by the story; and the twists enthrall you as the loose ends become clear as the novel progresses. You can taste the creamy smoky coconut chicken, chewy biniribid, just-right sweet biko, the flavorful bittermelon with eggs, and the sour green mango salad. Each dish is interwoven with the story.

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