Lives Remembered, A Memoir is by award-winning Filipino author, Linda Ty-Casper, who describes her work this way, "This memoir is about the lives of all the people who have become a part of me and made me who I am."

Linda Ty-Casper has written over seventeen books of fiction, eleven of which are novels that center on key historical events in the Philippines: the 1896 Philippine revolution, the Philippine-American War (1898-1902), World War II, the Martial Law years of the Marcos Dictatorship, among other topics.

In her Memoir, Ty-Casper pours her heart into sentences that bring to life the people, places, experiences, and memories that, at the age of 94 remain precious to her. She starts with her earliest memories describing to us where she lived and the people who populated her world then. There is Nanay the Grandmother who had seven children, and who became widowed, moved to Manila with her four daughters, and there played at the gaming tables to help support her family. This grandmother told Linda stories about the Philippine revolution against Spain, the war with the Americans, and who used to tell her, "Someone should write this story, the story of my life." The young Linda took her grandmother's words to heart and eventually wrote historical novels and is one of the leading novelists in the Philippines.

PRAISE:

For Linda Ty-Casper, foremost fictionist, the first Filipina writer in English who ventured into the difficult historical novel genre, it is now her own personal history she focuses the spotlight on. In her characteristic meticulously detailed narrative spanning some eighty years, she brings us to a world filled with a remarkable variety of encounters, of experiences with interlocking ties of family, friends, colleagues, fellow writers, neighbors, even strangers—people, she says, "who have become a part of me and made me who I am." ~ Thelma E. Arambulo, Writer, Literary Studies Scholar, Former UP Chair of the Dept. of English and Comparative Literature

Linda Ty-Casper's Lives Remembered, A Memoir is specifically, as she says, about "the lives of all the people who have become part of me and made me who I am," and she narrates her interactions with a remarkable number of people. In fact, in all respects the specificity of detail is remarkable ... Readers are treated to an account of a life well-lived. ~ Lynn M. Grow, Ph.D., Emeritus Senior Professor of English, Broward College, Florida