Award-winning Filipina writer, Linda Ty-Casper, who is noted for her historical fiction set in the Philippines presents A SMALL PARTY IN A GARDEN. This novel is set in the Philippines during the Marcos Dictatorship. The story's protagonist is a privileged woman who is the right-hand woman of Imelda Marcos, and who learns first hand what brutality meant under Martial Law.

The author Linda Ty-Casper is the author of over sixteen books, which generally deal with Philippine historical and political themes. She is the recipient of the SEAWrite Award, UNESCO/P.E.N., Rockefeller Bellagio, Radcliffe Fellowships and other awards. Her literary work is considered a significant contribution to Filipino, Philippine American, as well as Asian American literature. Her works of fiction are so powerful that two of her novels, Wings of Stone and Awaitting Trespass, were banned in the Philippines during the Marcos Dictatorship; the books were published in London.