A Review on 'The Last Time I Saw Mother'

“Always full of questions. . . you’re always talking …asking useless things . . . whatever for?”
- taken from “The Last Time I Saw Mother” p. 21

What is the past? What is history? Is it merely a collection of memories stored at the back of our minds like boxes of dusty, yellowed photographs kept in the attic – but never opened? Is that what history means to us? Is that what it all amounts to?
“The Last Time I Saw Mother” advocates the importance of looking back on your roots, on your history. There’s more to history than an event to be filed in your database for souvenir, which Caridad later learns as the novel unfolds.

One letter is all it took to bring Caridad back home, back to Philippines. Summoned by a brief, vague note, Caridad returns fearing for the worse - but what awaits Caridad is much more, so much more than she ever expected. She is confronted with the truth that has been denied her all throughout her life, until now. Told through th...