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Puraw Keridx
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ISBN13: 9781965439197
Publisher: Sampaguita Press LLC
Published: Sep 2 2026
Pages: 276
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Puraw Keridx is a searing examination of love, betrayal, and the ancestral ghosts that mold us. In this collection, Elsa Valmidiano opens the wound of a union disintegrated by infidelity and reveals the larger forces braided through its collapse: colonialism, white supremacy, inherited histories, womanhood, and the brittle architecture of intimacy. With poetic precision and devastating clarity, she traces the fault lines between denial and truth, destruction and desire, cultural memory and personal grief. What begins as heartbreak expands into an urgent meditation on power, race, and survival, transforming private ache into communal witnessing. Puraw Keridx is not simply a narrative of rupture but a reclamation-a love story transfigured into elegy, and a fierce refusal to vanish inside the lies of others.
-Christina D. Rodriguez, author of Knees in the Garden
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