<DIV><p>"<I>Angel de la Luna</I> is a beautifully told, and at times, heartbreaking coming of age and coming to America story. Evelina Galang is a masterful storyteller and through her brilliant voice and craft, Angel and her family become ours too."?Edwidge Danticat</p><p>Angel has just lost her father, and her mother's grief means she might as well be gone too. She's got a sister and a grandmother to look out for, and a burgeoning consciousness of the unfairness in the world?in her family, her community, and her country.</p><p>Set against the backdrop of the 1986 Philippine People Power Revolution, the struggles of surviving Filipina "Comfort Women" of WWII in the early 1990s, and a cold winter's season in the city of Chicago, is the story of a daughter coming of age, coming to forgiveness, and learning to move past the chaos of grief to survive.</p><p><B>M. Evelina Galang</B> is the author of <I>Her Wild American Self</I> and the novel <I>One Tribe</I>. She has edited the anthology <I>Screaming Monkeys: Critiques of Asian American Images</I>. She is currently writing <I>Lolas' House: Women Living with War</I>, stories of surviving Filipina WWII "Comfort Women," and is at work on a new novel. Galang teaches in and directs the creative writing program at the University of Miami, is core faculty for VONA/Voices: Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation, and has been named one of the one hundred most influential Filipinas in the United States by Filipina Women's Network.</p><br></DIV>