Sardonic, witty, and brutally frank, The House on Calle Sombra is an ode to family, and a compelling exploration of how greed, love, and trauma are passed down through generations. Mirroring events in the countrys turbulent history, the Castillos perfect faade begins to fracture as shadows from their past return to claim their due. And their brood of privileged descendants is struggling to live up to their famed and crested motto: FAMILY FIRST. Formidable matriarch Doa Fatimah is a native Muslim fugitive. Successful patriarch Don Federico arrived from Spain a penniless orphan. Set in the Philippines-a tropical island nation where truth blends with fiction-none of the Castillos is quite as perceived. Javier Sicilia, Award-winning Mexican poet, novelist, and social activist, founder of the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity against the crime and violence of Mexicos drug war PORTRAIT OF A MIXED RACE FAMILY GRAPPLING WITH IDENTITY AND BETRAYAL IN A TURBULENT TROPICAL ISLAND NATION The House on Calle Sombra follows the fates and fortunes of the esteemed Castillo de Montijo family over three generations. Sheila Macvicar, Emmy, Peabody and duPont Award-winning international journalist Ortigas is as well-measured as she is compelling in depicting the Castillos original sin as she seamlessly navigates the conceits and schemes of the Filipino elite across the time span of three generations. Like the tunnels in the book, this will take you into a world behind the curtain, revealing the universal truths concealed behind jewels, privilege and power. Nic Robertson, International Diplomatic Editor, CNN Marga Ortigas has written a stellar, soaring, gut-crunching multi-generational tale that is certain to set on edge the teeth of Manilas great and good. A rags-to-riches parable, in an unfamiliar and evocatively recalled landscape, festooning the reader in garlands of uncanny self-realisation. Book Synopsis Eye of a journalist, prose of a poet, an exotic tale delicately weaving a nations history with a familys unravelling.

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