![]() ![]() ![]() Evelina Galang as evidence that these crimes occurred. Courageous, aged grandmothers tell their stories and show their wounded bodies to M. ![]() Hopefully, Lolas' House will end denial and get justice, reparations, and a place in the history books for these women and their 400,000 sisters."-Maxine Hong Kingston, author of The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts, "This book is the last stand of women who survived the kidnapping and rape that was Japanese army strategy in World War II. M. Evelina Galang has given us a beautiful gift borne of her desire to seek justice for the lolas, and for us to receive the gift of healing through storytelling." -Leny Mendoza Strobel, author of Babaylan: Filipinos and the Call of the Indigenous and Back from the Crocodile's Belly: Philippine Babaylan Studies and the Struggle for Indigenous Memory, "This book is the last stand of women who survived the kidnapping and rape that was Japanese army strategy in World War II. It is in letting our tears flow and our hearts break that we also share the Lolas' pleas for all wars to end. "Lolas' House gives voice to the Filipina comfort women whose stories we must allow to enter our bodies. ![]()
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